1888 - 1965
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Born in St. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of T. S. Eliot has received more than 7,357,000 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). T. S. Eliot is the 530th most popular writer (down from 464th in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from United States (down from 471st in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Writer.
T.S. Eliot is most famous for his poem "The Waste Land."
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Among writers, T. S. Eliot ranks 530 out of 5,755. Before him are Ismail Kadare, Giorgos Seferis, Gérard de Nerval, Cassiodorus, Sidney Sheldon, and Lesya Ukrainka. After him are Paul Claudel, Muhammad Iqbal, José Martí, Premchand, Patrick Süskind, and Camille Flammarion.
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 524
1900 - 1971
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 525
1808 - 1855
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 526
487 - 583
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 527
1917 - 2007
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 528
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 529
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 530
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 531
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 532
1853 - 1895
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 533
1880 - 1936
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 534
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 535
1842 - 1925
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 536
Among people born in 1888, T. S. Eliot ranks 26. Before him are Johannes Itten, Roland Garros, F. W. Murnau, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Alexander Friedmann, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. After him are Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Rietveld, Selman Waksman, Frits Zernike, Inge Lehmann, and Andrei Tupolev. Among people deceased in 1965, T. S. Eliot ranks 16. Before him are W. Somerset Maugham, Louise Mountbatten, Edward Victor Appleton, Maxime Weygand, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. After him are Nat King Cole, Hermann Staudinger, Moshe Sharett, Paul Hermann Müller, Helena Rubinstein, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
1888 - 1967
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 20
1888 - 1918
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 21
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 22
1888 - 1964
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 23
1888 - 1925
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 24
1888 - 1963
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 25
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 26
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 27
1888 - 1964
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 28
1888 - 1973
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 29
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 30
1888 - 1993
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 31
1888 - 1972
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 32
1874 - 1965
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 10
1889 - 1965
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 11
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 12
1867 - 1965
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 13
1876 - 1965
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 14
1901 - 1965
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 15
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 16
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 17
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 18
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 19
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 20
1872 - 1965
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 21
1886 - 1965
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 22
Among people born in United States, T. S. Eliot ranks 543 out of 18,182. Before him are Matt Damon (1970), Albert Ellis (1913), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), and John Howard Northrop (1891). After him are James E. Webb (1906), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Jerry Lewis (1926), Anthony Perkins (1932), Francis Fukuyama (1952), and James Caan (1940).
1970 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 537
1913 - 2007
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 538
1921 - 2021
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 539
1917 - 2007
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 540
1888 - 1963
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 541
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 542
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 543
1906 - 1992
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 544
1908 - 1979
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 545
1926 - 2017
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 546
1932 - 1992
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 547
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 548
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 549
Among writers born in United States, T. S. Eliot ranks 60. Before him are Harriet Tubman (1820), Allen Ginsberg (1926), George R. R. Martin (1948), Harper Lee (1926), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), and Sidney Sheldon (1917). After him are Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Washington Irving (1783), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Thomas Wolfe (1900), and Michael Crichton (1942).
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 54
1926 - 1997
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 55
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 56
1926 - 2016
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 57
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 58
1917 - 2007
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 59
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 60
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 61
1783 - 1859
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 62
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 63
1871 - 1945
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 64
1900 - 1938
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 65
1942 - 2008
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 66