1844 - 1897
Minna Canth (Finnish pronunciation: [minːɑ kɑnt]; born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Minna Canth has received more than 267,848 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Minna Canth is the 1,938th most popular writer (up from 2,031st in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Finland (down from 71st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Finnish Writer.
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Among writers, Minna Canth ranks 1,938 out of 5,755. Before her are Kate Millett, Adnan Oktar, Fred Uhlman, Francis Jammes, Bharavi, and Ernst Robert Curtius. After her are Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Jaan Kaplinski, Tony Robbins, Ramón Sampedro, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, and Jean d'Ormesson.
1934 - 2017
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 1,932
1956 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 1,933
1901 - 1985
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 1,934
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 1,935
501 - 600
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 1,936
1886 - 1956
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 1,937
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 1,938
1829 - 1871
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 1,939
1941 - 2021
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 1,940
1960 - Present
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 1,941
1943 - 1998
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 1,942
1878 - 1940
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 1,943
1925 - 2017
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 1,944
Among people born in 1844, Minna Canth ranks 38. Before her are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Henry J. Heinz, Adolf Engler, Mihály Munkácsy, Eduard Strasburger, and Louis Riel. After her are Thomas Eakins, Joshua Slocum, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Victorine Meurent, Vasily Polenov, and George W. De Long. Among people deceased in 1897, Minna Canth ranks 28. Before her are Giuseppina Strepponi, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Galileo Ferraris, Alexei Savrasov, Viktor Meyer, and Khurshidbanu Natavan. After her are Stanislas de Guaita, George Pullman, Fritz Müller, Antonio Bazzini, Henry George, and Léon Boëllmann.
1844 - 1910
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 32
1844 - 1919
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 33
1844 - 1930
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 34
1844 - 1900
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 35
1844 - 1912
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 36
1844 - 1885
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 37
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 38
1844 - 1916
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 39
1844 - 1909
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 40
1844 - 1921
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 41
1844 - 1927
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 42
1844 - 1927
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 43
1844 - 1881
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 44
1815 - 1897
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 22
1810 - 1897
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 23
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 24
1830 - 1897
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 25
1848 - 1897
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 26
1832 - 1897
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 27
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 28
1861 - 1897
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 29
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 30
1822 - 1897
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 31
1818 - 1897
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 32
1839 - 1897
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 33
1862 - 1897
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 34
Among people born in Finland, Minna Canth ranks 72 out of 642. Before her are Ilmari Juutilainen (1914), Eino Leino (1878), Peter Forsskål (1732), Clas Thunberg (1893), Leif Segerstam (1944), and Paavo Lipponen (1941). After her are Edvard Westermarck (1862), Jaakko Hintikka (1929), Matti Järvinen (1909), Henri Toivonen (1956), Juhani Aho (1861), and Jarno Saarinen (1945).
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 66
1878 - 1926
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 67
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 68
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 69
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 70
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 71
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 72
1862 - 1939
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 73
1929 - 2015
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 74
1909 - 1985
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 75
1956 - 1986
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 76
1861 - 1921
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 77
1945 - 1973
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 78
Among writers born in Finland, Minna Canth ranks 11. Before her are Mikael Agricola (1510), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Väinö Linna (1920), and Eino Leino (1878). After her are Juhani Aho (1861), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Pentti Linkola (1932), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), and Frans Michael Franzén (1772).
1510 - 1557
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 5
1804 - 1877
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 6
1834 - 1872
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 7
1818 - 1898
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 8
1920 - 1992
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 9
1878 - 1926
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 10
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 11
1861 - 1921
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 12
1801 - 1865
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 13
1932 - 2020
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 14
1943 - 2001
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 15
1926 - 2011
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 16
1772 - 1847
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 17