1788 - 1824
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lord Byron has received more than 10,614,715 page views. His biography is available in 143 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 140 in 2019). Lord Byron is the 42nd most popular writer (up from 63rd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 48th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Writer.
He is most famous for his poetry, which includes Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan, and the Prisoner of Chillon.
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Among writers, Lord Byron ranks 42 out of 5,755. Before him are George Orwell, Alexander Pushkin, Marcel Proust, Hermann Hesse, Denis Diderot, and Friedrich Schiller. After him are Jane Austen, Aristophanes, Euripides, Mark Twain, Simone de Beauvoir, and Sappho.
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 36
1799 - 1837
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 37
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 38
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 39
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 40
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 41
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 42
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 43
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 44
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 45
1835 - 1910
HPI: 80.98
Rank: 46
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 47
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 48
Among people born in 1788, Lord Byron ranks 2. Before him is Arthur Schopenhauer. After him are Sarah Baartman, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Robert Peel, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria. Among people deceased in 1824, Lord Byron ranks 1. After him are Louis XVIII of France, Théodore Géricault, Eugène de Beauharnais, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, James Parkinson, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Agustín de Iturbide, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, and Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca.
1788 - 1860
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 2
1788 - 1815
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 3
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 4
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 5
1788 - 1851
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 6
1788 - 1855
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 7
1788 - 1819
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 8
1788 - 1850
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 9
1788 - 1836
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 10
1788 - 1865
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 11
1788 - 1831
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 12
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 1
1755 - 1824
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 2
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 3
1781 - 1824
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 4
1769 - 1824
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 5
1755 - 1824
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 6
1774 - 1824
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 7
1759 - 1824
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 8
1783 - 1824
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 9
1755 - 1824
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 10
1767 - 1824
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 11
1782 - 1824
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Lord Byron ranks 32 out of 7,765. Before him are James Cook (1728), Alexander Fleming (1881), Anne Boleyn (1501), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), and Robert Hooke (1635). After him are Jane Austen (1775), John Dalton (1766), David Hume (1711), Mary II of England (1662), James Prescott Joule (1818), and Thomas More (1478).
1728 - 1779
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 26
1881 - 1955
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 27
1501 - 1536
HPI: 81.86
Rank: 28
1883 - 1946
HPI: 81.58
Rank: 29
1542 - 1587
HPI: 81.53
Rank: 30
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 31
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 32
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 33
1766 - 1844
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 34
1711 - 1776
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 35
1662 - 1694
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 36
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 37
1478 - 1535
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 38
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lord Byron ranks 4. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Agatha Christie (1890), and Charles Dickens (1812). After him are Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), and Walter Scott (1771).
1564 - 1616
HPI: 90.88
Rank: 1
1890 - 1976
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 2
1812 - 1870
HPI: 82.45
Rank: 3
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 4
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 5
1859 - 1930
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 6
1660 - 1731
HPI: 79.35
Rank: 7
1882 - 1941
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 8
1832 - 1898
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 9
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 10
1850 - 1894
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 11
1771 - 1832
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 12