1893 - 1970
Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vera Brittain has received more than 1,685,700 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vera Brittain is the 1,888th most popular writer (up from 2,122nd in 2019), the 1,473rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,573rd in 2019) and the 166th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Vera Brittain ranks 1,888 out of 5,794. Before her are John Tzetzes, Heinz G. Konsalik, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Petr Ginz, Victoria Ocampo, and Christopher Isherwood. After her are Jean Paulhan, Friedrich Rückert, Konstantin Paustovsky, Peter Shaffer, Clive Barker, and Howard Fast.
1110 - 1180
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,882
1921 - 1999
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,883
1579 - 1666
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,884
1928 - 1944
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,885
1890 - 1979
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1,886
1904 - 1986
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1,887
1893 - 1970
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,888
1884 - 1968
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,889
1788 - 1866
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,890
1892 - 1968
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 1,891
1926 - 2016
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 1,892
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 1,893
1914 - 2003
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 1,894
Among people born in 1893, Vera Brittain ranks 82. Before her are Dragiša Cvetković, Roman Ingarden, Dean Acheson, Marianne Brandt, Dorothy Parker, and Gillis Grafström. After her are Ben Hecht, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Israel Joshua Singer, Alexander Korda, Edsel Ford, and Alois Hába. Among people deceased in 1970, Vera Brittain ranks 79. Before her are Roman Ingarden, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Piers Courage, Wilhelm Schepmann, Michał Kalecki, and Sheng Shicai. After her are Polina Zhemchuzhina, Lucien Goldmann, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Abraham Zapruder, Friedrich Pollock, and Pavel Belyayev.
1893 - 1969
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 76
1893 - 1970
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 77
1893 - 1971
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 78
1893 - 1983
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 79
1893 - 1967
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 80
1893 - 1938
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 81
1893 - 1970
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 82
1893 - 1964
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 83
1893 - 1968
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 84
1893 - 1944
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 85
1893 - 1956
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 86
1893 - 1943
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 87
1893 - 1973
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 88
1893 - 1970
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 73
1885 - 1970
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 74
1942 - 1970
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 75
1894 - 1970
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 76
1899 - 1970
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 77
1895 - 1970
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 78
1893 - 1970
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 79
1897 - 1970
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 80
1913 - 1970
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 81
1918 - 1970
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 82
1905 - 1970
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 83
1894 - 1970
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 84
1925 - 1970
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 85
Among people born in United Kingdom, Vera Brittain ranks 1,473 out of 6,924. Before her are Roland Joffé (1945), Frances Fisher (1952), Peg Entwistle (1908), Christopher Isherwood (1904), Mary Leakey (1913), and Lennox Lewis (1965). After her are William Cullen (1710), Ciarán Hinds (1953), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), Peter Shaffer (1926), Clive Barker (1952), and Norman Davies (1939).
1945 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,467
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,468
1908 - 1932
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1,469
1904 - 1986
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1,470
1913 - 1996
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1,471
1965 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,472
1893 - 1970
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,473
1710 - 1790
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,474
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,475
1693 - 1768
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,476
1926 - 2016
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 1,477
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 1,478
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 1,479
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Vera Brittain ranks 166. Before her are Patrick O'Brian (1914), James Herriot (1916), Edward Young (1683), Arthur Machen (1863), Thomas Wyatt (1503), and Christopher Isherwood (1904). After her are Peter Shaffer (1926), Clive Barker (1952), Anthony Trollope (1815), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), and Richard Aldington (1892).
1914 - 2000
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 160
1916 - 1995
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 161
1683 - 1765
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 162
1863 - 1947
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 163
1503 - 1542
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 164
1904 - 1986
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 165
1893 - 1970
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 166
1926 - 2016
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 167
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 168
1815 - 1882
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 169
1909 - 1957
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 170
1838 - 1926
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 171
1892 - 1962
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 172