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Rudyard Kipling

1865 - 1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudyard Kipling has received more than 11,462,188 page views. His biography is available in 118 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 112 in 2019). Rudyard Kipling is the 142nd most popular writer (down from 135th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from India (down from 15th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Writer.

Rudyard Kipling is most famous for his book The Jungle Book, which was published in 1894. It is a collection of stories, written in verse, about a boy named Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.

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  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 118

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rudyard Kipling ranks 142 out of 7,302. Before him are Adam Mickiewicz, Yukio Mishima, Carlo Collodi, Boris Pasternak, Mary Shelley, and Petronius. After him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Dr. Seuss, Eugène Ionesco, Joan Fuster, and Elias Canetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Rudyard Kipling ranks 2. Before him is Jean Sibelius. After him are George V, Pieter Zeeman, Erich Ludendorff, Alexander Glazunov, Archduke Otto of Austria, Warren G. Harding, Suzanne Valadon, Ferdinand I of Romania, Arthur Harden, and W. B. Yeats. Among people deceased in 1936, Rudyard Kipling ranks 4. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, Maxim Gorky, and Federico García Lorca. After him are George V, Luigi Pirandello, Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, and Ferdinand Tönnies.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 19 out of 1,861. Before him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Nagarjuna (150), Shivaji (1627), Mahavira (-599), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), and Indira Gandhi (1917). After him are Ānanda (-600), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Valmiki (-80), and Kālidāsa (400).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 3. Before him are George Orwell (1903), and Rabindranath Tagore (1861). After him are Valmiki (-80), Kālidāsa (400), Salman Rushdie (1947), Tulsidas (1532), Ghalib (1797), Savitribai Phule (1831), Meera (1498), Premchand (1880), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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