1893 - 1918
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfred Owen has received more than 2,993,598 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Wilfred Owen is the 3,085th most popular writer (down from 2,549th in 2019), the 2,297th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,937th in 2019) and the 267th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Wilfred Owen ranks 3,085 out of 5,755. Before him are John Stott, Edvard Radzinsky, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, René Daumal, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and Sergey Solovyov. After him are Dmitry Pisarev, John Evelyn, Ricarda Huch, Delmira Agustini, Gregory Benford, and Licinius Macer Calvus.
1921 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 3,079
1936 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,080
1569 - 1631
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,081
1908 - 1944
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,082
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,083
1820 - 1879
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,084
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,085
1840 - 1868
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,086
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,087
1864 - 1947
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 3,088
1886 - 1914
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 3,089
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 3,090
82 BC - 47 BC
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 3,091
Among people born in 1893, Wilfred Owen ranks 140. Before him are Ralph Linton, José María Velasco Ibarra, Johannes Dieckmann, Huey Long, Cedric Hardwicke, and Jorge Guillén. After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox, Georges Florovsky, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Gyula Breyer, Lucien Tesnière, and Edna Parker. Among people deceased in 1918, Wilfred Owen ranks 108. Before him are Carl Peters, Édouard Chavannes, Konstantin Jireček, Robbie Ross, George Mary Searle, and Marianne Cope. After him are Charles Wolf, Albert Ballin, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, William Hope Hodgson, Ali Aaltonen, and Ulisse Dini.
1893 - 1953
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 134
1893 - 1979
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 135
1893 - 1969
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 136
1893 - 1935
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 137
1893 - 1964
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 138
1893 - 1984
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 139
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 140
1893 - 1971
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 141
1893 - 1979
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 142
1893 - 1975
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 143
1893 - 1921
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 144
1893 - 1954
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 145
1893 - 2008
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 146
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 102
1865 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 103
1854 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 104
1869 - 1918
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 105
1839 - 1918
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 106
1838 - 1918
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 107
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 108
1827 - 1918
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 109
1857 - 1918
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 110
1887 - 1918
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 111
1877 - 1918
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 112
1884 - 1918
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 113
1845 - 1918
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 114
Among people born in United Kingdom, Wilfred Owen ranks 2,297 out of 7,765. Before him are Ian Richardson (1934), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), John Stott (1921), Bernard Fox (1927), and Kevin Ayers (1944). After him are Robert Stevenson (1905), John Evelyn (1620), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Paul Smith (1946), Richard Madden (1986), and Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215).
1934 - 2007
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,291
1896 - 1950
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,292
1889 - 1963
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,293
1921 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,294
1927 - 2016
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 2,295
1944 - 2013
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 2,296
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,297
1905 - 1986
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,298
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,299
1880 - 1958
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,300
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,301
1986 - Present
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 2,302
1215 - 1275
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 2,303
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Wilfred Owen ranks 267. Before him are William Smith (1813), Dodie Smith (1896), Richard Hammond (1969), Jack Higgins (1929), Winston Graham (1908), and John Stott (1921). After him are John Evelyn (1620), Charles Kingsley (1819), Branwell Brontë (1817), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Lytton Strachey (1880), and Ford Madox Ford (1873).
1813 - 1893
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 261
1896 - 1990
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 262
1969 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 263
1929 - 2022
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 264
1908 - 2003
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 265
1921 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 266
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 267
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 268
1819 - 1875
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 269
1817 - 1848
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 270
1893 - 1971
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 271
1880 - 1932
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 272
1873 - 1939
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 273