WRITER

Miguel de Cervantes

1547 - 1616

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( sur-VAN-teez, -⁠tiz; Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel de Cervantes has received more than 4,383,027 page views. His biography is available in 174 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 170 in 2019). Miguel de Cervantes is the 15th most popular writer (up from 17th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Spain and the most popular Spanish Writer.

Miguel de Cervantes is most famous for his novel, Don Quixote.

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  • 4.4M

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  • 87.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 174

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 15 out of 7,302. Before him are Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Sophocles, and Franz Kafka. After him are Jules Verne, Virgil, Albert Camus, Molière, Anton Chekhov, and Petrarch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 1. After him are John of Austria, Justus Lipsius, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Claude of France, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Oichi, Mateo Alemán, Sanada Masayuki, and Rudolph Goclenius. Among people deceased in 1616, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 2. Before him is William Shakespeare. After him are Tokugawa Ieyasu, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Jacob Le Maire, Andreas Libavius, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Magdalene of Brandenburg, and Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 3 out of 3,355. Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), and Salvador Dalí (1904). After him are Antoni Gaudí (1852), Francisco Goya (1746), Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Francisco Franco (1892), Diego Velázquez (1599), Trajan (53), Philip II of Spain (1527), and Hernán Cortés (1485).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 1. After him are Federico García Lorca (1898), Joan Fuster (1922), Lope de Vega (1562), Quintilian (35), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), Seneca the Elder (-54), Martial (40), and Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881).

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