Writer

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 - 1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2024). Percy Bysshe Shelley is the 378th most popular writer (up from 387th in 2024), the 357th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 276th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Writer.

Percy Bysshe Shelley is most famous for his poem "Ozymandias" which is about a broken statue of a king.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 378 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Salman Rushdie. After him are Margaret Mitchell, Appian, Karl May, Sayyid Qutb, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Alphonse de Lamartine.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

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Jean Genet
1910 - 1986
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 372
Theocritus
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 373
Lorenzo Valla
1407 - 1457
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 374
Léopold Sédar Senghor
1906 - 2001
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 375
Lucy Maud Montgomery
1874 - 1942
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 376
Salman Rushdie
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 377
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 - 1822
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 378
Margaret Mitchell
1900 - 1949
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 379
Appian
95 - 165
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 380
Karl May
1842 - 1912
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 381
Sayyid Qutb
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.34
Rank: 382
Constantine P. Cavafy
1863 - 1933
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 383
Alphonse de Lamartine
1790 - 1869
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 384

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius IX, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, John Herschel, and Nikolai Lobachevsky. After him are William II of the Netherlands, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Among people deceased in 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 5. Before him are William Herschel, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, and Antonio Canova. After him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, René Just Haüy, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

Others Born in 1792

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Pope Pius IX
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1792 - 1878
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 1
Gioachino Rossini
COMPOSER
1792 - 1868
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 2
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
PHYSICIST
1792 - 1843
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 3
John Herschel
INVENTOR
1792 - 1871
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 4
Nikolai Lobachevsky
MATHEMATICIAN
1792 - 1856
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 5
Percy Bysshe Shelley
WRITER
1792 - 1822
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 6
William II of the Netherlands
POLITICIAN
1792 - 1849
HPI: 74.18
Rank: 7
Karl Ernst von Baer
BIOLOGIST
1792 - 1876
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria
COMPANION
1792 - 1873
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 9
Alexander Ypsilantis
POLITICIAN
1792 - 1828
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 10
Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen
COMPANION
1792 - 1854
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
Johann Peter Eckermann
WRITER
1792 - 1854
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 12

Others Deceased in 1822

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William Herschel
ASTRONOMER
1738 - 1822
HPI: 80.07
Rank: 1
E. T. A. Hoffmann
WRITER
1776 - 1822
HPI: 79.88
Rank: 2
Ali Pasha of Ioannina
POLITICIAN
1750 - 1822
HPI: 78.32
Rank: 3
Antonio Canova
SCULPTOR
1757 - 1822
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 4
Percy Bysshe Shelley
WRITER
1792 - 1822
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 5
Claude Louis Berthollet
CHEMIST
1748 - 1822
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 6
Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen
POLITICIAN
1738 - 1822
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 7
Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
POLITICIAN
1766 - 1822
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 8
René Just Haüy
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 9
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
MATHEMATICIAN
1749 - 1822
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 10
Giovanni Battista Venturi
PHYSICIST
1746 - 1822
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 11
Johann Matthäus Bechstein
BIOLOGIST
1757 - 1822
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 12