1829 - 1888
Laurence Oliphant (3 August 1829 – 23 December 1888), a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence agent, Christian mystic, and Christian Zionist. His best known book in his lifetime was a satirical novel, Piccadilly (1870). More heed has gone since to his plan for Jewish farming communities in the Holy Land, The Land of Gilead. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurence Oliphant has received more than 9,242 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Laurence Oliphant is the 3,478th most popular writer, the 69th most popular biography from South Africa and the 7th most popular South African Writer.
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Among writers, Laurence Oliphant ranks 3,478 out of 5,755. Before him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, George Kodinos, Mirko Kovač, Srečko Kosovel, Léon-Paul Fargue, and Oton Župančič. After him are Tomaž Šalamun, Giovanni della Casa, Theodor Plievier, Abu Ali Bal'ami, Carl Bernstein, and Koriun.
1810 - 1880
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 3,472
1350 - 1401
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 3,473
1938 - 2013
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 3,474
1904 - 1926
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 3,475
1876 - 1947
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 3,476
1878 - 1949
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 3,477
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 3,478
1941 - 2014
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 3,479
1503 - 1556
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 3,480
1892 - 1955
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 3,481
1000 - 974
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 3,482
1944 - Present
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 3,483
380 - 450
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 3,484
Among people born in 1829, Laurence Oliphant ranks 42. Before him are Robert Nobel, Konrad Duden, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Carl Schurz, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, and Mikayel Nalbandian. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Edmond Albius, August Malmström, Jean Dufresne, Moritz Cantor, and Alfred Newton. Among people deceased in 1888, Laurence Oliphant ranks 56. Before him are Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Eunice Newton Foote, Stephen Heller, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, and Hippolyte Carnot. After him are Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Jules Émile Planchon, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, François Perrier, Amos Bronson Alcott, and George Robert Waterhouse.
1829 - 1896
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 36
1829 - 1911
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 37
1829 - 1907
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 38
1829 - 1906
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 39
1829 - 1899
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 40
1829 - 1866
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 41
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 42
1829 - 1908
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 43
1829 - 1880
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 44
1829 - 1901
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 45
1829 - 1893
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 46
1829 - 1920
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 47
1829 - 1907
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 48
1804 - 1888
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 50
1831 - 1888
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 51
1819 - 1888
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 52
1813 - 1888
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 53
1837 - 1888
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 54
1801 - 1888
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 55
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 56
1817 - 1888
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 57
1823 - 1888
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 58
1845 - 1888
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 59
1833 - 1888
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 60
1799 - 1888
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 61
1810 - 1888
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 62
Among people born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 69 out of 374. Before him are Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Navi Pillay (1941), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), and J. G. Strijdom (1893). After him are Steve Nash (1974), Nico Diederichs (1903), Ronald Harwood (1934), Piet Retief (1780), Laurens van der Post (1906), and Cecil Kellaway (1890).
1934 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 63
1889 - 1951
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 64
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 65
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 66
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 67
1893 - 1958
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 68
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 69
1974 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 70
1903 - 1978
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 71
1934 - 2020
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 72
1780 - 1838
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 73
1906 - 1996
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 74
1890 - 1973
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 75
Among writers born in South Africa, Laurence Oliphant ranks 7. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), and Breyten Breytenbach (1939). After him are Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Elisabeth Eybers (1915).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 3
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 4
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 5
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 6
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 7
1934 - 2020
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 8
1906 - 1996
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 10
1903 - 1988
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 11
1933 - 1965
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 12
1915 - 2007
HPI: 44.31
Rank: 13