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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 618,104 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pamela Colman Smith is the 4,308th most popular writer (down from 4,152nd in 2019), the 3,073rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,058th in 2019) and the 344th most popular British Writer.

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  • 56.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 4,308 out of 7,302. Before her are Yun Seondo, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Fritz Reuter, Stefano Benni, and Osip Brik. After her are Georges Eekhoud, John Stott, Jan Blahoslav, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Larysa Hienijuš, and Dmitry Furmanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 169. Before her are René Maire, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Konstantinos Paspatis, Leopold Staff, Harry Carey, and Mohammad Ali Jauhar. After her are Harriet Bosse, Ladislav Klíma, Louise Dresser, José Berraondo, Margaret Abbott, and Konrad Mägi. Among people deceased in 1951, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 124. Before her are Carl Albert Andersen, Henry Carton de Wiart, Peter Cheyney, Miyamoto Yuriko, Anna Tumarkin, and Fritz Julius Kuhn. After her are Enrique Santos Discépolo, Hasrat Mohani, Leopold Andrian, Richard Schorr, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, and Nils Rosén.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 3,073 out of 8,785. Before her are Anthony Caro (1924), Jesse Carver (1911), Jimmy Bain (1947), Anne Seymour Damer (1748), John Bodkin Adams (1899), and Roger Rees (1944). After her are Rhona Mitra (1976), Sam Smith (1992), Alicia Markova (1910), Anna Russell (1807), John Stott (1921), and Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Pamela Colman Smith ranks 344. Before her are Walter Map (1140), David Almond (1951), Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823), Anthony Hope (1863), Richard Pococke (1704), and Richard Hakluyt (1552). After her are John Stott (1921), Reynold A. Nicholson (1868), Winston Graham (1908), Andrew Marvell (1621), William Thoms (1803), and Brian O'Nolan (1911).

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