WRITER

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 2,366th most popular writer (down from 1,973rd in 2019), the 1,750th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,560th in 2019) and the 190th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Christmas tidings
Christmas, Nativity
1933
Pasoj Al Plena Posedo Progresiga Legoli
Christmas traditions
1931
Pasoj Al Plena Posedo
1974
Angla antologio, 1000-1800
1957

Page views of William Aulds by language

Over the past year William Auld has had the most page views in the with 7,114 views, followed by English (4,956), and Persian (1,752). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (102.45%), Ido (94.27%), and Occitan (70.76%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Auld ranks 2,366 out of 7,302. Before him are Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Salvadore Cammarano, Vítězslav Nezval, Luigi Illica, Frank McCourt, and Ueda Akinari. After him are Ulf Stark, António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, Dionysios Solomos, Leonard Woolf, and Edith Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, William Auld ranks 145. Before him are Charles Bachman, Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Karlheinz Deschner, Carlo Bergonzi, Margit Sandemo, and Donatas Banionis. After him are Grégoire Kayibanda, Shintaro Abe, S. N. Goenka, M. Karunanidhi, Luigi Musso, and Motoo Kimura. Among people deceased in 2006, William Auld ranks 119. Before him are Ali Farka Touré, Gérard Oury, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Joe Rosenthal, Carl Brashear, and Elias Hrawi. After him are Prince George William of Hanover, Vera Aceva, George Koval, Esther Lederberg, Faas Wilkes, and Coretta Scott King.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Auld ranks 1,750 out of 8,785. Before him are Geri Halliwell (1972), Walter Bagehot (1826), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Orlando Gibbons (1583), Kim Wilde (1960), and Antony Beevor (1946). After him are Pieter de Molijn (1595), Fergus Suter (1857), Thom Yorke (1968), Patrick Geddes (1854), Henry Maudslay (1771), and Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Auld ranks 190. Before him are Richard Aldington (1892), Kingsley Amis (1922), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Terry Eagleton (1943), Philip Sidney (1554), and Walter Bagehot (1826). After him are Leonard Woolf (1880), Taliesin (518), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), and George Meredith (1828).

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