WRITER

Oliver Goldsmith

1728 - 1774

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Goldsmith has received more than 1,138,410 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Oliver Goldsmith is the 2,147th most popular writer (down from 1,868th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 76th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 2,147 out of 7,302. Before him are Minna Canth, Raul Hilberg, János Arany, Antonio Skármeta, Osvaldo Moles, and Flannery O'Connor. After him are Ernst von Salomon, Goffredo Mameli, Paul Féval, père, Sabahattin Ali, Aleksander Chodźko, and Musa Cälil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 20. Before him are Robert Adam, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Adam Hiller, Shah Alam II, Kirill Razumovski, and Matthew Boulton. After him are Samuel Wallis, Carlo Allioni, Johann Andreas Stein, Hiraga Gennai, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, and Ferdinando Galiani. Among people deceased in 1774, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 11. Before him are Robert Clive, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, and Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken. After him are Johann Friedrich Agricola, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Anna Morandi Manzolini, and Johan Peter Falk.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 87 out of 549. Before him are Conor McGregor (1988), George Johnstone Stoney (1826), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), Eliza Lynch (1833), Andrew Graham (1815), and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769). After him are Saint Kilian (640), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845), Kevin Roche (1922), Liam Cunningham (1961), Patrick Pearse (1879), and Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 17. Before him are Ethel Voynich (1864), Saint Gall (550), Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), and John Banville (1945). After him are Patrick Pearse (1879), Charles Maturin (1780), John Millington Synge (1871), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Boyne (1971), and Edna O'Brien (1930).

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