1854 - 1900
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Wilde has received more than 18,945,795 page views. His biography is available in 123 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 119 in 2019). Oscar Wilde is the 35th most popular writer (up from 44th in 2019), the most popular biography from Ireland and the most popular Irish Writer.
Oscar Wilde is most famous for his witty and satirical comments on society and culture. He is also famous for being the author of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest."
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Among writers, Oscar Wilde ranks 35 out of 5,755. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Horace, Alexandre Dumas, and Aeschylus. After him are George Orwell, Alexander Pushkin, Marcel Proust, Hermann Hesse, Denis Diderot, and Friedrich Schiller.
1799 - 1850
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 29
1899 - 1961
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 30
1812 - 1870
HPI: 82.45
Rank: 31
65 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 82.14
Rank: 32
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 33
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 34
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 35
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 36
1799 - 1837
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 37
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 38
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 39
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 40
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 41
Among people born in 1854, Oscar Wilde ranks 1. After him are Arthur Rimbaud, Pope Benedict XV, Henri Poincaré, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, Emil von Behring, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, and George Eastman. Among people deceased in 1900, Oscar Wilde ranks 2. Before him is Friedrich Nietzsche. After him are Gottlieb Daimler, Max Müller, Wilhelm Steinitz, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, and Wilhelm Liebknecht.
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 2
1854 - 1922
HPI: 77.30
Rank: 3
1854 - 1912
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 4
1854 - 1928
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 5
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 6
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 7
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 8
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 9
1854 - 1943
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 10
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 11
1854 - 1932
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 12
1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 1
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 2
1834 - 1900
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 3
1823 - 1900
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 4
1836 - 1900
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 5
1844 - 1900
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 6
1817 - 1900
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 7
1844 - 1900
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 8
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 9
1853 - 1900
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 10
1822 - 1900
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 11
1826 - 1900
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 12
Among people born in Ireland, Oscar Wilde ranks 1 out of 501. After him are James Joyce (1882), Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Edmund Burke (1729), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Bram Stoker (1847), and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1627 - 1691
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 3
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 4
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 5
1685 - 1753
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 6
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 7
1940 - 2023
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 8
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 10
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 11
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Ireland, Oscar Wilde ranks 1. After him are James Joyce (1882), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Ethel Voynich (1864).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 3
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 4
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 8
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 9
550 - 645
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 10
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 11
1864 - 1960
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 12