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P. G. Wodehouse

English author

1881 - 1975

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His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. P. G. Wodehouse is the 1,157th most popular writer (up from 1,294th in 2024), the 1,058th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 973rd in 2019) and the 117th most popular British Writer.

P. G. Wodehouse is most famous for his comedic writing and his creation of Jeeves and Wooster.

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P. G. Wodehouse is the most memorable of the 24 notable people born in Guildford, United Kingdom, ahead of David Hemmings, Stuart Wilson, and Lily Collins.

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P. G. Wodehouse's biography appears in 48 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 1,157 out of 7,707. Before him are Jean-François Marmontel, Jean Webster, Charles Simic, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and Gottfried Keller. After him are Vladimir Bartol, Irving Stone, Marcel Pagnol, Marcus Minucius Felix, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Henri Michaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 52. Before him are Otto Bauer, Carlo Carrà, Sveinn Björnsson, Emil Ludwig, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and Lewis Fry Richardson. After him are Artur Phleps, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Ludwig Binswanger, Hakaru Hashimoto, Kim Kyu-sik, and Giovanni Papini. Among people deceased in 1975, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 40. Before him are Pavel Sukhoi, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, G. I. Taylor, Éamon de Valera, Gottlob Berger, and Julian Huxley. After him are Carlo Levi, Vicente Feola, Rex Stout, Bernard Herrmann, Latife Uşşaki, and Annette Kellermann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 1,058 out of 9,870. Before him are Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham (1458), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Anna Atkins (1799), Julian Huxley (1887), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), and John Balliol (1249). After him are James Lovelock (1919), Tim Roth (1961), Alexander III of Scotland (1241), Arthur Cayley (1821), Thomas Tallis (1502), and Robert III of Scotland (1330).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 117. Before him are James Thomson (1700), Tony Buzan (1942), Oliver Sacks (1933), Len Deighton (1929), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), and David Lodge (1935). After him are Sarah Ferguson (1959), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Diana Mosley (1910), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), John William Polidori (1795), and Elizabeth Gaskell (1810).

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