1865 - 1936
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. 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 10,101,116 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 110 in 2019). Rudyard Kipling is the 135th most popular writer (down from 124th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from India (down from 10th 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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Among writers, Rudyard Kipling ranks 135 out of 5,755. Before him are Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, August Strindberg, Carlo Collodi, Günter Grass, and Charles Baudelaire. After him are Charlotte Brontë, Catullus, Tove Jansson, William Blake, H. G. Wells, and Kālidāsa.
1771 - 1832
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 129
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 130
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 131
1826 - 1890
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 132
1927 - 2015
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 133
1821 - 1867
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 134
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 135
1816 - 1855
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 136
84 BC - 54 BC
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 137
1914 - 2001
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 138
1757 - 1827
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 139
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 140
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 141
Among people born in 1865, Rudyard Kipling ranks 3. Before him are Jean Sibelius and George V. After him are Pieter Zeeman, Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand I of Romania, Warren G. Harding, Archduke Otto of Austria, W. B. Yeats, Alexander Glazunov, Carl Nielsen, and Paul Dukas. Among people deceased in 1936, Rudyard Kipling ranks 5. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, and George V. After him are Oswald Spengler, Luigi Pirandello, Lu Xun, Ferdinand Tönnies, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, and Eleftherios Venizelos.
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 1
1865 - 1936
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 3
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 4
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 5
1865 - 1927
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 6
1865 - 1923
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 7
1865 - 1906
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 8
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 9
1865 - 1936
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 10
1865 - 1931
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 12
1849 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 1
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 2
1898 - 1936
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 3
1865 - 1936
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 4
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 5
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 6
1867 - 1936
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 7
1881 - 1936
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 8
1855 - 1936
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 9
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 10
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 11
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 16 out of 1,493. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ramakrishna (1836), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Nagarjuna (150), and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887). After him are Indira Gandhi (1917), Kālidāsa (400), Shivaji (1627), Ānanda (-600), Bodhidharma (483), and Chandragupta Maurya (-340).
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 10
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 11
1836 - 1886
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 12
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 13
150 - 250
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 14
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 15
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 16
1917 - 1984
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 17
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 18
1627 - 1680
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 19
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 20
483 - 540
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 21
340 BC - 297 BC
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 22
Among writers born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 3. Before him are George Orwell (1903) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861). After him are Kālidāsa (400), Valmiki (-80), Tulsidas (1532), Meera (1498), Salman Rushdie (1947), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Savitribai Phule (1831), Premchand (1880), and Ghalib (1797).
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 1
1861 - 1941
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 3
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 4
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 5
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 6
1498 - 1546
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 8
1811 - 1863
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1831 - 1897
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 10
1880 - 1936
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 11
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 12