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 607,114 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sheridan Le Fanu is the 1,600th most popular writer (down from 1,322nd in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 57th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Irish Writer.
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Among writers, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 1,600 out of 5,755. Before him are Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Mateo Alemán, Pacuvius, Walter Tevis, Semonides of Amorgos, and Brian Tracy. After him are Wace, Ryū Murakami, Afanasy Fet, Gabriel Naudé, Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Colin Wilson.
1866 - 1941
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 1,594
1547 - 1613
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 1,595
220 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 1,596
1928 - 1984
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 1,597
650 BC - 550 BC
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 1,598
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 1,599
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 1,600
1100 - 1174
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 1,601
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 1,602
1820 - 1892
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 1,603
1600 - 1653
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 1,604
1441 - 1494
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 1,605
1931 - 2013
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 1,606
Among people born in 1814, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 20. Before him are Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel. After him are Eugène Charles Catalan, Heinrich Geißler, Alexander Cunningham, Rasoherina, Ivan Mažuranić, and Henri Tresca. Among people deceased in 1873, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 20. Before him are Johns Hopkins, Émile Gaboriau, Louis Agassiz, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, and Pauline Therese of Württemberg. After him are Viktor Hartmann, Jean Chacornac, José Antonio Páez, Friedrich Wieck, Mary Ann Cotton, and Charles II, Duke of Brunswick.
1814 - 1896
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 14
1814 - 1898
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 15
1814 - 1858
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 16
1814 - 1870
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 17
1814 - 1895
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 18
1814 - 1886
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 19
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 20
1814 - 1894
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 21
1814 - 1879
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 22
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 23
1814 - 1868
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 24
1814 - 1890
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 25
1814 - 1885
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 26
1795 - 1873
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 14
1832 - 1873
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 15
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 16
1803 - 1873
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 17
1807 - 1873
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 18
1800 - 1873
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 19
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 20
1834 - 1873
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 21
1823 - 1873
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 22
1790 - 1873
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 23
1785 - 1873
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 24
1832 - 1873
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 25
1804 - 1873
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 26
Among people born in Ireland, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 66 out of 501. Before him are Malcolm II of Scotland (954), James Ussher (1581), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), William C. Campbell (1930), Brigid of Kildare (451), and Brian Cowen (1960). After him are Brian Boru (941), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), Mary Robinson (1944), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), George Johnstone Stoney (1826), and Conor McGregor (1988).
954 - 1034
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 60
1581 - 1656
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 61
1851 - 1901
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 62
1930 - Present
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 63
451 - 525
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 64
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 65
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 66
941 - 1014
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 67
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 68
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 69
1810 - 1897
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 70
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 71
1988 - Present
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 72
Among writers born in Ireland, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), Ethel Voynich (1864), Thomas Moore (1779), and Christy Brown (1932). After him are Charles Maturin (1780), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), John Banville (1945), Cornelius Ryan (1920), and John Millington Synge (1871).
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 9
550 - 645
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 10
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 11
1864 - 1960
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 12
1779 - 1852
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 13
1932 - 1981
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 14
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 15
1780 - 1824
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 16
1728 - 1774
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 17
1879 - 1916
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 18
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 19
1920 - 1974
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 20
1871 - 1909
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 21