New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Jonathan Swift

1667 - 1745

Photo of Jonathan Swift

Icon of person Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Swift has received more than 4,212,581 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia. Jonathan Swift is the 83rd most popular writer, the 4th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Writer.

Jonathan Swift is most famous for his satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Jonathan Swifts by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jonathan Swift ranks 83 out of 5,755. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, Paulo Coelho, Nikolai Gogol, and Stephen King. After him are Miyamoto Musashi, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Selma Lagerlöf, Virginia Woolf, and Maxim Gorky.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1667, Jonathan Swift ranks 1. After him are Johann Bernoulli, Abraham de Moivre, Maria Anna of Neuburg, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Louis, Count of Vermandois, Antonio Lotti, Alessandro Magnasco, Marie Thérèse of France, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and James Louis Sobieski. Among people deceased in 1745, Jonathan Swift ranks 1. After him are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Robert Walpole, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Antoine Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Nicola Fago, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Others Born in 1667

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1745

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Jonathan Swift ranks 4 out of 501. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), James Joyce (1882), and Robert Boyle (1627). After him are George Bernard Shaw (1856), George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Edmund Burke (1729), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Bram Stoker (1847), and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769).

Others born in Ireland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Jonathan Swift ranks 3. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854) and James Joyce (1882). After him are George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Ethel Voynich (1864).

Irish born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL