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William Auld

1924 - 2006

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William Auld (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Auld has received more than 55,216 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. William Auld is the 1,979th most popular writer (up from 2,848th in 2019), the 1,565th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,151st in 2019) and the 165th most popular British Writer.

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  • 55k

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  • 55.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Auld ranks 1,979 out of 5,755Before him are Philippe Sollers, Israel Joshua Singer, Isaeus, Arkady Gaidar, Ivan Mažuranić, and Carl Sandburg. After him are Isaac the Blind, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Arsen Kotsoyev, Paul Morand, Tin Ujević, and Feng Menglong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, William Auld ranks 126Before him are Daniel Inouye, Jean Girault, Khamtai Siphandon, Rikidōzan, E. P. Thompson, and Aman Andom. After him are Allan Edwall, Carlo Bergonzi, Cicely Tyson, Edward Cassidy, Alexander Haig, and Zbigniew Herbert. Among people deceased in 2006, William Auld ranks 102Before him are Allan Kaprow, Trevor Berbick, Tina Aumont, Ali Farka Touré, P. F. Strawson, and Shin Sang-ok. After him are Óscar Míguez, Elias Hrawi, Anna Moffo, Alexander Zinoviev, Lee Jong-wook, and Red Buttons.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Auld ranks 1,565 out of 7,765Before him are George Shaw (1751), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Olaf Stapledon (1886), John Smyth (1570), and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784). After him are William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), John Muir (1838), David Coulthard (1971), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Margaret Douglas (1515), and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Auld ranks 165Before him are Anthony Trollope (1815), George MacDonald (1824), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), Sister Nivedita (1867), Vita Sackville-West (1892), and Karen Armstrong (1944). After him are Eric Knight (1897), Walter Bagehot (1826), Gerald Gardner (1884), James Herriot (1916), Philip Sidney (1554), and Richard Adams (1920).