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Walt Whitman

1819 - 1892

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Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walt Whitman has received more than 8,535,510 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Walt Whitman is the 270th most popular writer (down from 250th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from United States (down from 219th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Writer.

Walt Whitman is most famous for his poetry, which was published in book form in 1855.

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  • 8.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 100

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walt Whitman ranks 270 out of 7,302. Before him are Jami, Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, and Anna Komnene. After him are Bartolomé de las Casas, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, Marguerite Duras, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Alphonse Daudet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Walt Whitman ranks 8. Before him are Gustave Courbet, Jacques Offenbach, Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, and Albert, Prince Consort. After him are Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, and George Eliot. Among people deceased in 1892, Walt Whitman ranks 2. Before him is Werner von Siemens. After him are Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Bahá'u'lláh, Ernest Renan, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Thomas Cook, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walt Whitman ranks 231 out of 20,380. Before him are Josephine Baker (1906), Tim Burton (1958), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Arthur Miller (1915), and Peter Falk (1927). After him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Michael Jordan (1963), Steve Ballmer (1956), Kevin Costner (1955), Robert Wadlow (1918), and Carl David Anderson (1905).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Walt Whitman ranks 20. Before him are John Steinbeck (1902), Dale Carnegie (1888), Ray Bradbury (1920), Herman Melville (1819), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), and Arthur Miller (1915). After him are Philip K. Dick (1928), Emily Dickinson (1830), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Gertrude Stein (1874), Coen brothers (null), and David Woodard (1964).

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