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Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900

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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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  • 123

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oscar Wilde ranks 35 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Oscar Wilde ranks 1After 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 2Before 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.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oscar Wilde ranks 1 out of 501After 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).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Oscar Wilde ranks 1After 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).