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Thomas More

1478 - 1535

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Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas More has received more than 9,233,943 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Thomas More is the 54th most popular philosopher (down from 41st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 38th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Philosopher.

Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, and statesman. He was Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532 and is best known for his influential work Utopia.

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  • 97

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  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas More ranks 54 out of 1,267. Before him are John Amos Comenius, Lucretius, Hannah Arendt, Anaxagoras, Plotinus, and Michel Foucault. After him are Henri Bergson, Karl Popper, Zeno of Elea, Mikhail Bakunin, Epictetus, and Herbert Spencer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Thomas More ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement VII, and Hayreddin Barbarossa. After him are Francisco Pizarro, Giorgione, Philip I of Castile, Baldassare Castiglione, John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hatuey, and Sancha of Aragon. Among people deceased in 1535, Thomas More ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Francesco II Sforza, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Lorenzo Costa, John Fisher, Ippolito de' Medici, Gustav Trolle, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas More ranks 53 out of 8,785. Before him are Cecil Rhodes (1853), Richard Burton (1925), Sean Connery (1930), Francis Drake (1540), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), and Oliver Cromwell (1599). After him are Daniel Defoe (1660), Charles Babbage (1791), Olav V of Norway (1903), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Emily Brontë (1818), and Herbert Spencer (1820).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Thomas More ranks 5. Before him are Francis Bacon (1561), John Locke (1632), Thomas Hobbes (1588), and David Hume (1711). After him are Herbert Spencer (1820), Jeremy Bentham (1748), Roger Bacon (1220), William of Ockham (1285), John Venn (1834), Joseph Priestley (1733), and Duns Scotus (1265).

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