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Pamela Colman Smith

1878 - 1951

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Pamela Colman Smith (16 February 1878 – 18 September 1951), nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith deck) for Arthur Edward Waite. This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers, and remains the most widely used today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pamela Colman Smith has received more than 542,843 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Pamela Colman Smith is the 4,165th most popular writer, the 3,066th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 351st most popular British Writer.

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  • 540k

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  • 48.15

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 4,165 out of 5,755Before her are Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Jesús Moncada, François le Métel de Boisrobert, Johann Fischart, Mongo Beti, and Georges Courteline. After her are Davit Guramishvili, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Simo Matavulj, Ian Rankin, and Norman Spinrad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 155Before her are Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Leopold Staff, Gaston Alibert, Rudolf Walden, Siamanto, and Harriet Bosse. After her are Ernst Hoppenberg, Viktor Nogin, Dorothea Bate, Pat McDonald, Carl Sternheim, and José Berraondo. Among people deceased in 1951, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 108Before her are Karel Teige, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Tilemachos Karakalos, Louis Adamic, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, and Robert Walker. After her are Gustave Sandras, Haj Ali Razmara, Fanny Brice, Leopold Andrian, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Anna Tumarkin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 3,066 out of 7,765Before her are Mary Millar (1936), Neil Murray (1950), Mary Norton (1903), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), Matt Smith (1982), and Chris Lowe (1959). After her are Ian Rankin (1960), Brian Hart (1936), Graham Hancock (1950), Roger Dean (1944), Maria Edgeworth (1768), and Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 351Before her are Ronald Knox (1888), William Hazlitt (1778), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Donald Adamson (1939), Sarah Kane (1971), and Mary Norton (1903). After her are Ian Rankin (1960), Graham Hancock (1950), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Andrew Marvell (1621), Anthony Hope (1863), and Norman Smith (1923).