1814 - 1873
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (; 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheridan Le Fanu has received more than 384,804 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sheridan Le Fanu is the 1,322nd most popular writer (up from 1,395th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 55th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Irish Writer.
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Among writers, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 1,322 out of 5,794. Before him are Cratinus, Thornton Wilder, Georges Duhamel, Anne Desclos, Maurice Barrès, and Joseph Addison. After him are Babrius, Victor Serge, Namık Kemal, Heliodorus of Emesa, Lord Alfred Douglas, and Egon Kisch.
500 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 1,316
1897 - 1975
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 1,317
1884 - 1966
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 1,318
1907 - 1998
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 1,319
1862 - 1923
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 1,320
1672 - 1719
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 1,321
1814 - 1873
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 1,322
110 - 200
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 1,323
1890 - 1947
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 1,324
1840 - 1888
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 1,325
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 1,326
1870 - 1945
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 1,327
1885 - 1948
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 1,328
Among people born in 1814, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 15. Before him are Henri Nestlé, Julius von Mayer, Hong Xiuquan, Jenny von Westphalen, James Joseph Sylvester, and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours. After him are Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Heinrich Geißler, Eugène Charles Catalan, and Rasoherina. Among people deceased in 1873, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 15. Before him are Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Fyodor Tyutchev, Louis Agassiz, and Vasil Levski. After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Émile Gaboriau, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Viktor Hartmann, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, and José Antonio Páez.
1814 - 1890
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 9
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 10
1814 - 1864
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12
1814 - 1897
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 13
1814 - 1896
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 14
1814 - 1873
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 15
1814 - 1858
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 16
1814 - 1870
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 17
1814 - 1898
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 18
1814 - 1879
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 19
1814 - 1894
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 20
1814 - 1868
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 21
1801 - 1873
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 9
1805 - 1873
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 10
1820 - 1873
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 11
1803 - 1873
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 12
1807 - 1873
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 13
1837 - 1873
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 14
1814 - 1873
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 15
1803 - 1873
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 16
1832 - 1873
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 17
1812 - 1873
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 18
1834 - 1873
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 19
1807 - 1873
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 20
1790 - 1873
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 21
Among people born in Ireland, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 57 out of 460. Before him are Brendan Gleeson (1955), Richard Cantillon (1680), James Ussher (1581), Dolores O'Riordan (1971), Edward England (1685), and Eileen Gray (1878). After him are John Toland (1670), Thomas Moore (1779), J. D. Bernal (1901), Colin Farrell (1976), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), and Brian Boru (941).
1955 - Present
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 51
1680 - 1734
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 52
1581 - 1656
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 53
1971 - 2018
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 54
1685 - 1720
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 55
1878 - 1976
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 56
1814 - 1873
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 57
1670 - 1722
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 58
1779 - 1852
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 59
1901 - 1971
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 60
1976 - Present
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 61
1850 - 1916
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 62
941 - 1014
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 63
Among writers born in Ireland, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 13. Before him are W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Iris Murdoch (1919), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Saint Gall (550). After him are Thomas Moore (1779), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Christy Brown (1932), Charles Maturin (1780), Patrick Pearse (1879), and John Millington Synge (1871).
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 8
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 9
1898 - 1981
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 10
1864 - 1960
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 11
550 - 645
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 12
1814 - 1873
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 13
1779 - 1852
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 14
1728 - 1774
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 15
1932 - 1981
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 16
1780 - 1824
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 17
1879 - 1916
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 18
1871 - 1909
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 19