1850 - 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Louis Stevenson has received more than 5,165,613 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Robert Louis Stevenson is the 125th most popular writer, the 85th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 79th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Writer.
Robert Louis Stevenson is most famous for his novel, Treasure Island.
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Among writers, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 125 out of 5,794. Before him are Henry David Thoreau, Jean de La Fontaine, Hafez, Federico García Lorca, Plautus, and Rudyard Kipling. After him are Emily Brontë, Walter Scott, August Strindberg, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Blake, and Carlo Collodi.
1817 - 1862
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 119
1621 - 1695
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 120
1325 - 1389
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 121
1898 - 1936
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 122
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 81.63
Rank: 123
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 124
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 125
1818 - 1848
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 126
1771 - 1832
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 127
1849 - 1912
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 128
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 129
1757 - 1827
HPI: 81.15
Rank: 130
1826 - 1890
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 131
Among people born in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 3. Before him are Jack the Ripper and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Edward Smith, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Mihai Eminescu, and Pierre Loti. Among people deceased in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 3. Before him are Heinrich Hertz and Alexander III of Russia. After him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Adolphe Sax, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Gustave Caillebotte, Anton Rubinstein, Lajos Kossuth, Hans von Bülow, and Pafnuty Chebyshev.
1850 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 1
1850 - 1893
HPI: 83.67
Rank: 2
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 3
1850 - 1912
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 4
1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 5
1850 - 1937
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 6
1850 - 1891
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 7
1850 - 1932
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 8
1850 - 1909
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 9
1850 - 1935
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 10
1850 - 1889
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 11
1850 - 1923
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 12
1857 - 1894
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 1
1845 - 1894
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 2
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 3
1821 - 1894
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 4
1814 - 1894
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 5
1805 - 1894
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 6
1837 - 1894
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 7
1848 - 1894
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 8
1829 - 1894
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 9
1802 - 1894
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 10
1830 - 1894
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 11
1821 - 1894
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 85 out of 6,924. Before him are Jeremy Bentham (1748), Roger Bacon (1220), Edward II of England (1284), William Harvey (1578), Ringo Starr (1940), and George Stephenson (1781). After him are Emily Brontë (1818), Roger Moore (1927), David Livingstone (1813), Walter Scott (1771), Ian McKellen (1939), and William Blake (1757).
1748 - 1832
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 79
1220 - 1292
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 80
1284 - 1327
HPI: 81.68
Rank: 81
1578 - 1657
HPI: 81.59
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 81.54
Rank: 83
1781 - 1848
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 84
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 85
1818 - 1848
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 86
1927 - 2017
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 87
1813 - 1873
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 88
1771 - 1832
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 89
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 90
1757 - 1827
HPI: 81.15
Rank: 91
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 11. Before him are Daniel Defoe (1660), Jane Austen (1775), Lord Byron (1788), Lewis Carroll (1832), Virginia Woolf (1882), and Mary Shelley (1797). After him are Emily Brontë (1818), Walter Scott (1771), William Blake (1757), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Aldous Huxley (1894), and H. G. Wells (1866).
1660 - 1731
HPI: 85.27
Rank: 5
1775 - 1817
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 6
1788 - 1824
HPI: 84.48
Rank: 7
1832 - 1898
HPI: 83.81
Rank: 8
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 9
1797 - 1851
HPI: 82.80
Rank: 10
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 11
1818 - 1848
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 12
1771 - 1832
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 13
1757 - 1827
HPI: 81.15
Rank: 14
1816 - 1855
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 15
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 16
1866 - 1946
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 17