PHILOSOPHER

William Ames

1576 - 1633

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William Ames (; Latin: Guilielmus Amesius; 1576 – 14 November 1633) was an English Puritan minister, philosopher, and controversialist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Ames has received more than 115,132 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Ames is the 1,239th most popular philosopher (down from 1,116th in 2019), the 5,440th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,169th in 2019) and the 96th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 49.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, William Ames ranks 1,239 out of 1,267. Before him are Christine Korsgaard, Julia Annas, Will Kymlicka, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Stephen Walt, and James Dunn. After him are David Benatar, Peter Kreeft, Richard Crashaw, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Nel Noddings, and Leonard Peikoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1576, William Ames ranks 15. Before him are Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, David Vinckboons, Gregorio Fernández, Johann Schreck, John Marston, and Thomas Weelkes.  Among people deceased in 1633, William Ames ranks 21. Before him are Juan Pablo Bonet, John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Francis Godwin, Étienne Brûlé, and George Abbot.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Ames ranks 5,440 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Vaughan (1621), Peter Chelsom (1956), Alexander Albon (1996), Andy Auld (1900), Jimmy Ross (1866), and William Fox (1812). After him are Joe Calzaghe (1972), Frederick Humphreys (1878), Andrew Morton (1959), William Roscoe (1753), Richard Greene (1918), and Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, William Ames ranks 96. Before him are John Gray (1948), C. H. Dodd (1884), Mary Midgley (1919), Nick Land (1962), Peter Geach (1916), and James Dunn (1939). After him are Richard Crashaw (1612), Colin McGinn (1950), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954), and N. T. Wright (1948).

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