1881 - 1975
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( WOOD-howss; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. G. Wodehouse has received more than 3,094,627 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). P. G. Wodehouse is the 1,261st most popular writer (down from 1,133rd in 2019), the 1,015th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 882nd in 2019) and the 115th 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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Among writers, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 1,261 out of 5,755. Before him are Antoine de Montchrestien, Hugo Gernsback, Odo of Cluny, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Lu Yu, and Aleksandr Kuprin. After him are Mahadevi Varma, Charles Péguy, Rasul Gamzatov, Mario Benedetti, Michel Butor, and Winifred Wagner.
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,255
1884 - 1967
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,256
878 - 942
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,257
1736 - 1794
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,258
733 - 804
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,259
1870 - 1938
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,260
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,261
1907 - 1987
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,262
1873 - 1914
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 1,263
1923 - 2003
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,264
1920 - 2009
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,265
1926 - 2016
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 1,266
1897 - 1980
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 1,267
Among people born in 1881, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 53. Before him are Ludwig Binswanger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sveinn Björnsson, Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Klemperer, and Giovanni Papini. After him are Paul Cornu, Vincenzo Lancia, Mikhail Larionov, L. E. J. Brouwer, Franz Gürtner, and Ulrich von Hassell. Among people deceased in 1975, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 47. Before him are François Tombalbaye, Rex Stout, Bernard Herrmann, Carlo Levi, Vicente Feola, and George Stevens. After him are Elijah Muhammad, Leroy Anderson, Luigi Dallapiccola, Edward Tatum, Thornton Wilder, and Ivan Maisky.
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 47
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 48
1881 - 1952
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 49
1881 - 1959
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 50
1881 - 1960
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 51
1881 - 1956
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 52
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 53
1881 - 1944
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 54
1881 - 1937
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 55
1881 - 1964
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 56
1881 - 1966
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 57
1881 - 1941
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 58
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 59
1918 - 1975
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 41
1886 - 1975
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 42
1911 - 1975
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 43
1902 - 1975
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 44
1909 - 1975
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 45
1904 - 1975
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 46
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 47
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 48
1908 - 1975
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 49
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 50
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 51
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 52
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 53
Among people born in United Kingdom, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 1,015 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Hardy (1925), Cozy Powell (1947), Mary Somerville (1780), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), Van Morrison (1945), and Princess Marie of Orléans (1865). After him are Winifred Wagner (1897), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), Helen McCrory (1968), Peter Shilton (1949), Gary Brooker (1945), and John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792).
1925 - 2017
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,009
1947 - 1998
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,010
1780 - 1872
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,011
1921 - 2012
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,012
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,013
1865 - 1909
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,014
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,015
1897 - 1980
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 1,016
1156 - 1189
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,017
1968 - 2021
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,018
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,019
1945 - 2022
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,020
1792 - 1878
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,021
Among writers born in United Kingdom, P. G. Wodehouse ranks 115. Before him are Lobsang Rampa (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Berger (1926), and James Anderson (1680). After him are Winifred Wagner (1897), Samuel Butler (1612), Neil Gaiman (1960), John Dryden (1631), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), and Colin Dexter (1930).
1910 - 1981
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 109
1914 - 1953
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 110
1920 - 2004
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 111
1785 - 1859
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 112
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 113
1680 - 1739
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 114
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 115
1897 - 1980
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 116
1612 - 1680
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 117
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 118
1631 - 1700
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 119
1870 - 1945
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 120
1930 - 2017
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 121