1835 - 1902
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted today. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Butler has received more than 34,857 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Samuel Butler is the 573rd most popular writer (down from 541st in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 386th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Writer.
Samuel Butler is most famous for his satirical poem "Hudibras," which is a mock epic poem about the English Civil War.
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Among writers, Samuel Butler ranks 573 out of 5,794. Before him are Mo Yan, Marie-Antoine Carême, Dean Koontz, Gustav Meyrink, Novatian, and Kazuo Ishiguro. After him are Wang Wei, Francesca da Rimini, Franz Werfel, William McMaster Murdoch, Adam de la Halle, and Walter Raleigh.
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 567
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 568
1945 - Present
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 569
1868 - 1932
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 570
220 - 258
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 571
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 572
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 573
699 - 759
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 574
1259 - 1285
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 575
1890 - 1945
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 576
1873 - 1912
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 577
1245 - 1288
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 578
1554 - 1618
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 579
Among people born in 1835, Samuel Butler ranks 12. Before him are Cesare Lombroso, Andrew Carnegie, Adolf von Baeyer, César Cui, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Henryk Wieniawski. After him are Demetrius Vikelas, Josef Stefan, Giosuè Carducci, William Stanley Jevons, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Eduard Strauss. Among people deceased in 1902, Samuel Butler ranks 7. Before him are Émile Zola, Cecil Rhodes, Levi Strauss, Rudolf Virchow, Swami Vivekananda, and Maria Goretti. After him are Marie Henriette of Austria, James Tissot, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Ion Ivanovici, and Albert of Saxony.
1835 - 1909
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 6
1835 - 1919
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 7
1835 - 1917
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 8
1835 - 1918
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 9
1835 - 1910
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 10
1835 - 1880
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 11
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 12
1835 - 1908
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 13
1835 - 1893
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 14
1835 - 1907
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 15
1835 - 1882
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 16
1835 - 1901
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 17
1835 - 1916
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 18
1840 - 1902
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 1
1853 - 1902
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 2
1829 - 1902
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 3
1821 - 1902
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 4
1863 - 1902
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 5
1890 - 1902
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 6
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 7
1836 - 1902
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 8
1836 - 1902
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 9
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 10
1822 - 1902
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 11
1845 - 1902
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12
1828 - 1902
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 430 out of 6,924. Before him are David Lean (1908), Robert Plant (1948), Mary Mallon (1869), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Olivia Newton-John (1948), and Jim Clark (1936). After him are Robert II of Scotland (1316), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Isaac Barrow (1631), Walter Raleigh (1554), John Dowland (1563), and James IV of Scotland (1473).
1908 - 1991
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 424
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 425
1869 - 1938
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 426
1849 - 1924
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 427
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 428
1936 - 1968
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 429
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 430
1316 - 1390
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 431
1873 - 1912
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 432
1631 - 1677
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 433
1554 - 1618
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 434
1563 - 1626
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 435
1473 - 1513
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 436
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 55. Before him are George Eliot (1819), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Philip Larkin (1922), A. J. Cronin (1896), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), and Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849). After him are William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Walter Raleigh (1554), Thomas Hardy (1840), Oliver Sacks (1933), Anthony Burgess (1917), and John le Carré (1931).
1819 - 1880
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 49
1885 - 1930
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 50
1922 - 1985
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 51
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 52
1772 - 1834
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 53
1849 - 1924
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 54
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 55
1873 - 1912
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 56
1554 - 1618
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 57
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 58
1933 - 2015
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 59
1917 - 1993
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 60
1931 - 2020
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 61