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Ronald Knox

1888 - 1957

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Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a high reputation as a classicist, Knox was ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1912. He was a fellow and chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford until he resigned from those positions following his conversion to Catholicism in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Knox has received more than 417,857 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ronald Knox is the 4,613th most popular writer (down from 4,080th in 2019), the 3,306th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,000th in 2019) and the 372nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 420k

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  • 55.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ronald Knox ranks 4,613 out of 7,302. Before him are Hilde Domin, Gilbert Adair, Karl von Holtei, Walter Anderson, Art Buchwald, and John Piper. After him are Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Javier Cercas, Peter Carey, Gordon Willis, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Gonçalves Dias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Ronald Knox ranks 186. Before him are Margarita Xirgu, Roger Ducret, Kiichiro Higuchi, Alexei Mateevici, Nils Dardel, and Albert Kluyver. After him are Fritz Schäffer, Sven Landberg, Charles Winslow, Harry Beaumont, Alfred Landé, and Marie Rambert. Among people deceased in 1957, Ronald Knox ranks 162. Before him are Viggo Larsen, Gustav Mie, Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, Piero Carini, Demetrio Neyra, and Aleksey Remizov. After him are Hjalmar Johansson, Martin Wagner, Walter Nausch, Carl Bonde, Karl Patterson Schmidt, and Robert Lowie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Knox ranks 3,306 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Sheppard (1702), Matthew Hopkins (1620), John Hutchinson (1884), Tommy Cooper (1921), David MacMillan (1968), and Lita Ford (1958). After him are James Ivory (1765), Christian Horner (1973), Flora Sandes (1876), York Bowen (1884), Stephen Gardiner (1497), and John Marshall (1748).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Ronald Knox ranks 372. Before him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Alan Bennett (1934), Isaac Watts (1674), George Chapman (1559), Lydia Becker (1827), and Gilbert Adair (1944). After him are W. S. Gilbert (1836), Sarah Kane (1971), Grace Aguilar (1816), Thomas Middleton (1580), Taylor Caldwell (1900), and Stephen Baxter (1957).

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