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Thomas Wyatt

1503 - 1542

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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent, though the family was originally from Yorkshire. His family adopted the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Wyatt has received more than 17,283 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Thomas Wyatt is the 1,919th most popular writer (down from 1,753rd in 2019), the 1,466th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,383rd in 2019) and the 159th most popular British Writer.

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  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Wyatt ranks 1,919 out of 7,302. Before him are Surdas, Gitta Sereny, Watchman Nee, Juhani Aho, Nicanor Parra, and Miklós Nyiszli. After him are Michel de Ghelderode, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Edward Young, Josef Lada, Isaac Alfasi, and Philippe Quinault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1503, Thomas Wyatt ranks 13. Before him are Henry II of Navarre, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Gerolama Orsini, and Robert Estienne. After him are Bartolomé Carranza, Giovanni della Casa, Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, and Augustin Hirschvogel. Among people deceased in 1542, Thomas Wyatt ranks 11. Before him are Lapu-Lapu, Hernando de Soto, Dosso Dossi, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Sayyida al Hurra, and Peter Henlein. After him are Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Cristóvão da Gama, Diego de Almagro II, Nikolaus Federmann, Girolamo Aleandro, and Ludwig Senfl.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wyatt ranks 1,466 out of 8,785. Before him are Claire Bloom (1931), Simon Stock (1164), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Sean Harris (1966), Elihu Thomson (1853), and Robert Stephenson (1803). After him are J. Lee Thompson (1914), David Garrick (1717), Edward Young (1683), John Graunt (1620), Roland Joffé (1945), and Janick Gers (1957).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wyatt ranks 159. Before him are Malcolm Lowry (1909), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Brian Aldiss (1925), Colin Wilson (1931), Joseph Addison (1672), and Christopher Robin Milne (1920). After him are Edward Young (1683), Anthony Trollope (1815), Robert Southey (1774), Christopher Isherwood (1904), Karen Armstrong (1944), and Philip Kerr (1956).

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