1667 - 1745
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, and is less well known for his poetry. 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 3,344,572 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Jonathan Swift is the 83rd most popular writer (up from 93rd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Writer.
Jonathan Swift is most famous for his satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels.
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Among writers, Jonathan Swift ranks 83 out of 5,794. Before him are Marquis de Sade, Giorgio Vasari, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, and Milan Kundera. After him are Knut Hamsun, James Joyce, Octave Mirbeau, Robert Frost, George Bernard Shaw, and François Rabelais.
1740 - 1814
HPI: 83.78
Rank: 77
1511 - 1574
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 78
1899 - 1986
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 79
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 80
1850 - 1893
HPI: 83.67
Rank: 81
1929 - Present
HPI: 83.65
Rank: 82
1667 - 1745
HPI: 83.64
Rank: 83
1859 - 1952
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 84
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 85
1848 - 1917
HPI: 83.53
Rank: 86
1874 - 1963
HPI: 83.51
Rank: 87
1856 - 1950
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 88
1494 - 1553
HPI: 83.19
Rank: 89
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, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, James Louis Sobieski, and Johann Christoph Pepusch. 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, Antoine Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie.
1667 - 1745
HPI: 83.64
Rank: 1
1667 - 1748
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 2
1667 - 1754
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 3
1667 - 1740
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 4
1667 - 1743
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 5
1667 - 1683
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 6
1667 - 1740
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 7
1667 - 1749
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 8
1667 - 1733
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 9
1667 - 1721
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 10
1667 - 1737
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 11
1667 - 1752
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 12
1667 - 1745
HPI: 83.64
Rank: 1
1697 - 1745
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 2
1676 - 1745
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 3
1679 - 1745
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 4
1668 - 1745
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 5
1674 - 1745
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 6
1671 - 1745
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Rank: 7
1684 - 1745
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 8
1663 - 1745
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 9
1707 - 1745
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 10
1671 - 1745
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 11
Among people born in Ireland, Jonathan Swift ranks 2 out of 460. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854). After him are James Joyce (1882), George Bernard Shaw (1856), George Berkeley (1685), Robert Boyle (1627), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Bram Stoker (1847), Edmund Burke (1729), Francis Bacon (1909), and Peter O'Toole (1932).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 85.81
Rank: 1
1667 - 1745
HPI: 83.64
Rank: 2
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 3
1856 - 1950
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 4
1685 - 1753
HPI: 82.67
Rank: 5
1627 - 1691
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 6
1906 - 1989
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 7
1940 - Present
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 8
1847 - 1912
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 9
1729 - 1797
HPI: 78.48
Rank: 10
1909 - 1992
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 11
1932 - 2013
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Ireland, Jonathan Swift ranks 2. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854). After him are James Joyce (1882), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Iris Murdoch (1919), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Saint Gall (550).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 85.81
Rank: 1
1667 - 1745
HPI: 83.64
Rank: 2
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 3
1856 - 1950
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 4
1906 - 1989
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 8
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 9
1898 - 1981
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 10
1864 - 1960
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 11
550 - 645
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 12