1819 - 1892
Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. 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 7,927,501 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Walt Whitman is the 250th most popular writer (down from 219th in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from United States (down from 190th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Writer.
Walt Whitman is most famous for his poetry, which was published in book form in 1855.
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Among writers, Walt Whitman ranks 250 out of 5,755. Before him are Sallust, J. K. Rowling, Germaine de Staël, Bram Stoker, Christine de Pizan, and Roald Dahl. After him are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eckhart Tolle, Isabel Allende, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Halldór Laxness.
86 BC - 34 BC
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 244
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 245
1766 - 1817
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 246
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 247
1365 - 1430
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 248
1916 - 1990
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 249
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 250
1893 - 1930
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 251
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 252
1948 - Present
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 253
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 254
1484 - 1566
HPI: 70.96
Rank: 255
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 256
Among people born in 1819, Walt Whitman ranks 8. Before him are Gustave Courbet, Jacques Offenbach, Albert, Prince Consort, Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, and Herman Melville. After him are Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, George Eliot, Maria II of Portugal, and John Ruskin. Among people deceased in 1892, Walt Whitman ranks 1. After him are Werner von Siemens, Bahá'u'lláh, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Ernest Renan, Thomas Cook, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.
1819 - 1877
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 2
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 3
1819 - 1861
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 4
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 5
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1819 - 1891
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 7
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 8
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 9
1819 - 1850
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 10
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 11
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 12
1819 - 1853
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 13
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 14
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 1
1816 - 1892
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 2
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 3
1808 - 1892
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 4
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 5
1808 - 1892
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 6
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 7
1823 - 1892
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 8
1818 - 1892
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 9
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 10
1837 - 1892
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 11
1827 - 1892
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Walt Whitman ranks 219 out of 18,182. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Miles Davis (1926), James Brown (1933), Frank Zappa (1940), and Edwin McMillan (1907). After him are John Travolta (1954), Tim Cook (1960), Andrew Jackson (1767), Robert Wadlow (1918), Patti Smith (1946), and Charles Sanders Peirce (1839).
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 213
1963 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 214
1926 - 1991
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 215
1933 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 216
1940 - 1993
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 217
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 218
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 219
1954 - Present
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 220
1960 - Present
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 221
1767 - 1845
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 222
1918 - 1940
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 223
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 224
1839 - 1914
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 225
Among writers born in United States, Walt Whitman ranks 24. Before him are Herman Melville (1819), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Ray Bradbury (1920), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Philip K. Dick (1928), and Coen brothers (null). After him are Henry Miller (1891), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Mario Puzo (1920), Raymond Chandler (1888), Jack Kerouac (1922), and Ezra Pound (1885).
1819 - 1891
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 18
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 19
1920 - 2012
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 20
1803 - 1882
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 21
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 22
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 23
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 24
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 25
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 26
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 27
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 28
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 29
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 30