1824 - 1889
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes, he moved with them to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years, learning both Italian and French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilkie Collins has received more than 1,135,113 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Wilkie Collins is the 887th most popular writer (down from 801st in 2019), the 724th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 628th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Writer.
Wilkie Collins is most famous for his novel "The Woman in White" which was published in 1860. It is a mystery novel about a woman who is kidnapped and held prisoner by a man who is obsessed with her.
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Among writers, Wilkie Collins ranks 887 out of 5,755. Before him are Eugène Scribe, Thomas Malory, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Clifford D. Simak, Philostratus, and Abraham Abulafia. After him are Jacques Clément, Georg Brandes, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rustichello da Pisa, and Bertran de Born.
1791 - 1861
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 881
1405 - 1471
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 882
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 883
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 884
170 - 250
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 885
1240 - 1292
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 886
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 887
1567 - 1589
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 888
1842 - 1927
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 889
1757 - 1806
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 890
1868 - 1937
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 891
1290 - 1400
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 892
1140 - 1215
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 893
Among people born in 1824, Wilkie Collins ranks 12. Before him are Maria Alexandrovna, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Boudin, Paul Broca, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Marie Duplessis. After him are Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Stonewall Jackson, Carl Reinecke, Dayananda Saraswati, William Huggins, and William Walker. Among people deceased in 1889, Wilkie Collins ranks 13. Before him are Father Damien, Luís I of Portugal, Mihai Eminescu, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Charles III, Prince of Monaco. After him are Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Marie of Prussia, Wilhelm Tempel, Giovanni Bottesini, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 6
1824 - 1904
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 7
1824 - 1898
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 8
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 9
1824 - 1898
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 10
1824 - 1847
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 11
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 12
1824 - 1890
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 13
1824 - 1863
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 14
1824 - 1910
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 15
1824 - 1883
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 16
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 17
1824 - 1860
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 18
1840 - 1889
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 7
1838 - 1889
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 8
1850 - 1889
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 9
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 10
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 11
1818 - 1889
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 12
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 13
1838 - 1889
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 14
1825 - 1889
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 15
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 16
1821 - 1889
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 17
1822 - 1889
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 18
1808 - 1889
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 19
Among people born in United Kingdom, Wilkie Collins ranks 724 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Malory (1405), George Martin (1926), Willibrord (658), John Paul Jones (1946), Ian Paice (1948), and Benjamin Hornigold (1680). After him are Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Thomas Mun (1571), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Robert III of Scotland (1330), and Godfrey Hounsfield (1919).
1405 - 1471
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 718
1926 - 2016
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 719
658 - 739
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 720
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 721
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 722
1680 - 1719
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 723
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 724
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 725
1571 - 1641
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 726
1757 - 1806
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 727
1534 - 1578
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 728
1330 - 1406
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 729
1919 - 2004
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 730
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Wilkie Collins ranks 88. Before him are Eleanor Marx (1855), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James May (1963), H. Rider Haggard (1856), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), and Thomas Malory (1405). After him are Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Samuel Richardson (1689), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Ben Jonson (1572), John Fowles (1926), and E. M. Forster (1879).
1855 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 82
1959 - Present
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 83
1963 - Present
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 84
1856 - 1925
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 85
1809 - 1892
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 86
1405 - 1471
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 87
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 88
1757 - 1806
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 89
1689 - 1761
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 90
1940 - 1989
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 91
1572 - 1637
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 92
1926 - 2005
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 93
1879 - 1970
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 94