WRITER

Victor Hugo

1802 - 1885

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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Hugo has received more than 9,318,742 page views. His biography is available in 174 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 170 in 2019). Victor Hugo is the 12th most popular writer (up from 13th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from France (up from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Writer.

Victor Hugo is most famous for his novel Les Miserables, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 88.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 174

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victor Hugo ranks 12 out of 7,302. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, and Leo Tolstoy. After him are Sophocles, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes, Jules Verne, Virgil, and Albert Camus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Alexandre Dumas, Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Lajos Kossuth, Elias Lönnrot, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Charles Wheatstone, and Germain Henri Hess. Among people deceased in 1885, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Ulysses S. Grant, Alfonso XII of Spain, Muhammad Ahmad, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Carl Spitzweg, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Charles George Gordon, Iwasaki Yatarō, Rosalía de Castro, and L'Inconnue de la Seine.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Hugo ranks 7 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoleon (1769), Louis XIV of France (1638), René Descartes (1596), Blaise Pascal (1623), Joan of Arc (1412), and Voltaire (1694). After him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Louis XVI of France (1754), Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), Montesquieu (1689), and Louis XV of France (1710).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Victor Hugo ranks 2. Before him are Voltaire (1694). After him are Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Denis Diderot (1713), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), and Stendhal (1783).

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