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Leonard Woolf

1880 - 1969

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Leonard Sidney Woolf (; (1880-11-25)25 November 1880 – (1969-08-14)14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Woolf has received more than 1,038,884 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Woolf is the 2,603rd most popular writer (down from 2,457th in 2019), the 1,981st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,863rd in 2019) and the 226th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leonard Woolf ranks 2,603 out of 5,755Before him are Michele Ruggieri, Mirra Alfassa, Martin Walser, K. Shivaram Karanth, Antiochus Kantemir, and Herman Gorter. After him are George Mosse, Vítězslav Nezval, Elmore Leonard, Ikki Kita, George Tabori, and Konstantin Mihailović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Leonard Woolf ranks 94Before him are Gabriel Voisin, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Begum Rokeya, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Tudor Arghezi, and Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster. After him are Alfred J. Lotka, B. C. Forbes, Georg von Trapp, Johannes Aavik, Louis Charles Breguet, and Zequinha de Abreu. Among people deceased in 1969, Leonard Woolf ranks 91Before him are Ivar Ballangrud, Willy Mairesse, Aleksandras Stulginskis, André Salmon, Krzysztof Komeda, and He Long. After him are Ismail al-Azhari, Abdirashid Shermarke, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Georges Catroux, Iskander Mirza, and John Wyndham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leonard Woolf ranks 1,981 out of 7,765Before him are Ian Wilmut (1944), Mother Shipton (1488), Margaret of England (1240), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Anthony Asquith (1902), and James Wolfe (1727). After him are Rachel Kempson (1910), Christine Keeler (1942), Freddie Highmore (1992), Steve Winwood (1948), Phil Taylor (1954), and B. C. Forbes (1880).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Leonard Woolf ranks 226Before him are William Congreve (1670), Arthur Young (1741), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Mary Astell (1666), John Christopher (1922), and William Ernest Henley (1849). After him are Herbert Read (1893), Joseph Delaney (1945), Ken Robinson (1950), David C. H. Austin (1926), Arnold Bennett (1867), and Robert Burton (1577).