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Stephen Leacock

1869 - 1944

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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Leacock has received more than 523,098 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Stephen Leacock is the 5,369th most popular writer (down from 4,836th in 2019), the 4,349th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,945th in 2019) and the 486th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stephen Leacock ranks 5,369 out of 5,755. Before him are John Antoine Nau, Thomas Campbell, Piers Anthony, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Joe Medicine Crow, and Amira Hass. After him are Meg Cabot, Joe Sacco, Steven Saylor, Kim Newman, Alexander Afinogenov, and Douglas Coupland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Stephen Leacock ranks 132. Before him are Harry Stafford, Henriette Roland Holst, Bill Haywood, Juan Bautista Pérez, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov. After him are Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Bertha Townsend, Ellen Hansell, Charley Grapewin, and Booth Tarkington. Among people deceased in 1944, Stephen Leacock ranks 256. Before him are George Herriman, Adaviye Efendiyeva, Karel Hartmann, John Dill, Katri Vala, and Eoin O'Duffy. After him are Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Georg Dascher, Hermann Hansen, Mary Adela Blagg, Toni Merkens, and Carl Eduard Hellmayr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Leacock ranks 4,349 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Campbell (1777), Victor Johnson (1883), Piers Anthony (1934), Joe Mercer (1914), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811). After him are Aneurin Bevan (1897), Brian Robertson (1956), Richard A. Proctor (1837), Bert Williams (1920), Ove Arup (1895), and Kim Newman (1959).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Stephen Leacock ranks 486. Before him are R. M. Ballantyne (1825), Abraham Cowley (1618), Nicholas Evans (1950), Martin Litchfield West (1937), Thomas Campbell (1777), and Piers Anthony (1934). After him are Kim Newman (1959), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Stephen Spender (1909), Sarah Waters (1966), Thomas Hughes (1822), and Darren Shan (1972).

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