1865 - 1939
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. B. Yeats has received more than 5,694,892 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). W. B. Yeats is the 407th most popular writer (down from 353rd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Ireland and the 7th most popular Irish Writer.
W. B. Yeats is most famous for his poetry. He was a member of the Irish Literary Revival and a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1923.
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Among writers, W. B. Yeats ranks 407 out of 5,755. Before him are Lysias, Paul Auster, Propertius, Martial, Alvin Toffler, and Tom Clancy. After him are Sholem Aleichem, Gertrude Stein, Saint-John Perse, Thomas Bernhard, Meera, and Lactantius.
445 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 401
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 402
50 BC - 14 BC
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 403
40 - 104
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 404
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 405
1947 - 2013
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 406
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 407
1859 - 1916
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 408
1874 - 1946
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 409
1887 - 1975
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 410
1931 - 1989
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 411
1498 - 1546
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 412
250 - 325
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 413
Among people born in 1865, W. B. Yeats ranks 9. Before him are Rudyard Kipling, Pieter Zeeman, Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand I of Romania, Warren G. Harding, and Archduke Otto of Austria. After him are Alexander Glazunov, Carl Nielsen, Paul Dukas, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Sven Hedin, and Suzanne Valadon. Among people deceased in 1939, W. B. Yeats ranks 8. Before him are Pope Pius XI, Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Joseph Roth. After him are Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, Anton Makarenko, Philipp Scheidemann, and Karl Radek.
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 3
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 4
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 5
1865 - 1927
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 6
1865 - 1923
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 7
1865 - 1906
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 8
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 9
1865 - 1936
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 10
1865 - 1931
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 12
1865 - 1950
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 13
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 14
1865 - 1938
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 15
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 2
1860 - 1939
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 3
1874 - 1939
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 4
1861 - 1939
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 5
1869 - 1939
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 6
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 7
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 8
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 9
1880 - 1939
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 10
1884 - 1939
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 11
1888 - 1939
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 12
1865 - 1939
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 13
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 14
Among people born in Ireland, W. B. Yeats ranks 19 out of 501. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Francis Bacon (1909), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Richard Harris (1930), and Anne Bonny (1702). After him are Ernest Shackleton (1874), Laurence Sterne (1713), Enya (1961), Michael Collins (1890), Columbanus (540), and Michael D. Higgins (1941).
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 13
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 14
1909 - 1992
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 15
810 - 877
HPI: 68.78
Rank: 16
1930 - 2002
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 17
1702 - 1782
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 18
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 19
1874 - 1922
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 20
1713 - 1768
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 21
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 22
1890 - 1922
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 23
540 - 615
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 24
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 25
Among writers born in Ireland, W. B. Yeats ranks 7. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), James Joyce (1882), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), and Bram Stoker (1847). After him are Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Thomas Moore (1779).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 3
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 4
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 8
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 9
550 - 645
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 10
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 11
1864 - 1960
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 12
1779 - 1852
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 13