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Noah Webster

1758 - 1843

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Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-Backed Speller" books taught generations of American children how to spell and read. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noah Webster has received more than 1,265,456 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Noah Webster is the 8th most popular linguist (up from 65th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,865th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 21.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Noah Webster ranks 8 out of 214. Before him are Noam Chomsky, Max Müller, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Antoine Meillet, William James Sidis, and Roman Jakobson. After him are Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Franz Bopp, Pāṇini, and August Schleicher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Noah Webster ranks 4. Before him are Maximilien Robespierre, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and James Monroe. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, André Masséna, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Kamehameha I, Emperor Go-Momozono, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Franz Joseph Gall, and Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1843, Noah Webster ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin, William I of the Netherlands, and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. After him are Samuel Hahnemann, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, and Peter Wittgenstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Noah Webster ranks 243 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl David Anderson (1905), Diane Keaton (1946), Audie Murphy (1925), Charlton Heston (1923), Samuel Colt (1814), and John Ford (1894). After him are Frank Zappa (1940), John Rawls (1921), Philip K. Dick (1928), David Lynch (1946), Emily Greene Balch (1867), and Jay Leno (1950).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Noah Webster ranks 3. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), and William James Sidis (1898). After him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), Joseph Greenberg (1915), George Lakoff (1941), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

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