1865 - 1936
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book dilogy (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 8,448,046 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Rudyard Kipling is the 124th most popular writer (down from 116th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from India 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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Among writers, Rudyard Kipling ranks 124 out of 5,794. Before him are Jean Cocteau, Henry David Thoreau, Jean de La Fontaine, Hafez, Federico García Lorca, and Plautus. After him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Brontë, Walter Scott, August Strindberg, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and William Blake.
1889 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 118
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
Among people born in 1865, Rudyard Kipling ranks 2. Before him is Jean Sibelius. After him are George V, Erich Ludendorff, Pieter Zeeman, Ferdinand I of Romania, W. B. Yeats, Archduke Otto of Austria, Alexander Glazunov, Warren G. Harding, Carl Nielsen, and Paul Dukas. 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, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Lev Kamenev, Ferdinand Tönnies, Luigi Pirandello, Grigory Zinoviev, and Albert Fish.
1865 - 1957
HPI: 82.28
Rank: 1
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 3
1865 - 1937
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 4
1865 - 1943
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 5
1865 - 1927
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 7
1865 - 1906
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 8
1865 - 1936
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 9
1865 - 1923
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 10
1865 - 1931
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 11
1865 - 1935
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 12
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 1
1868 - 1936
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 2
1898 - 1936
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 3
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 4
1865 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 5
1881 - 1936
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 6
1880 - 1936
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 7
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 8
1855 - 1936
HPI: 76.81
Rank: 9
1867 - 1936
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 10
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 11
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 10 out of 1,227. Before him are Rajneesh (1931), Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), and Ramakrishna (1836). After him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Kālidāsa (400), Indira Gandhi (1917), Ānanda (-600), and Shivaji (1627).
1931 - 1990
HPI: 85.85
Rank: 4
1942 - Present
HPI: 84.82
Rank: 5
1861 - 1941
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 6
1931 - 2015
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 7
1887 - 1920
HPI: 82.47
Rank: 8
1836 - 1886
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 9
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 10
1913 - 1967
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1964
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 12
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 13
1917 - 1984
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 14
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 15
1627 - 1680
HPI: 79.64
Rank: 16
Among writers born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 3. Before him are George Orwell (1903) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861). After him are Kālidāsa (400), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Tulsidas (1532), Valmiki (-80), Ghalib (1797), Salman Rushdie (1947), Premchand (1880), Vātsyāyana (300), and Meera (1498).
1903 - 1950
HPI: 86.36
Rank: 1
1861 - 1941
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 3
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 4
1811 - 1863
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 5
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 6
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 7
1797 - 1869
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 9
1880 - 1936
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 10
300 - Present
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 11
1498 - 1546
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 12