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Oliver Goldsmith

1728 - 1774

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Goldsmith has received more than 1,055,729 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Oliver Goldsmith is the 1,873rd most popular writer (down from 1,573rd in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 65th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 55.74

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

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  • 5.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 1,873 out of 5,755. Before him are Trygve Gulbranssen, Alex Haley, Luis de León, Lydia Koidula, Vasile Alecsandri, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. After him are Jacint Verdaguer, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Mukaghali Makatayev, Ruan Ji, Ibn al-Farid, and Jón Arason.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 18. Before him are Antoine Baumé, Samuel Wallis, Shah Alam II, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Kirill Razumovski, and Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are John Hunter, Matthew Boulton, Johann Adam Hiller, Carlo Allioni, Johann Andreas Stein, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. Among people deceased in 1774, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 10. Before him are Charles Marie de La Condamine, Niccolò Jommelli, Robert Clive, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, and Jacques-François Blondel. After him are Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johan Peter Falk, and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 77 out of 501. Before him are George Johnstone Stoney (1826), Conor McGregor (1988), Kevin Farrell (1947), J. D. Bernal (1901), Vergilius of Salzburg (700), and Charles Maturin (1780). After him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), James Hoban (1762), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Neil Jordan (1950), and Kevin Roche (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 17. Before him are Iris Murdoch (1919), Ethel Voynich (1864), Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), and Charles Maturin (1780). After him are Patrick Pearse (1879), John Banville (1945), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), and Brendan Behan (1923).

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