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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Poet, essayist, physician

1809 - 1894

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His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2024). Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. is the 407th most popular writer (up from 2,532nd in 2024), the 491st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,203rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ranks 407 out of 7,302. Before him are William Wordsworth, Verner von Heidenstam, Ghalib, Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, and Livius Andronicus. After him are Wilhelm Grimm, Jorge Amado, W. B. Yeats, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and Sándor Petőfi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ranks 10. Before him are Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, William Ewart Gladstone, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Georges-Eugène Haussmann. After him are Bruno Bauer, Joseph Liouville, Albert Pike, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Juliusz Słowacki. Among people deceased in 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ranks 8. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hermann von Helmholtz, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Lajos Kossuth, and Ferdinand de Lesseps. After him are Adolphe Sax, Anton Rubinstein, Gustave Caillebotte, Hans von Bülow, Marie François Sadi Carnot, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ranks 491 out of NaN. Before him are John Bardeen (1908), Susan Sontag (1933), Chuck Berry (1926), Bob Kahn (1938), Stevie Wonder (1950), and Faye Dunaway (1941). After him are John Saxon (1935), Frank Lucas (1930), Jefferson Davis (1808), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), and Cliff Burton (1962).

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Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ranks 43. Before him are Henry Miller (1891), Coen brothers (null), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Sylvia Plath (1932), Frank Herbert (1920), and Susan Sontag (1933). After him are James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Jack Kerouac (1922), Gertrude Stein (1874), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), and Philip Roth (1933).

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