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William Kent

1685 - 1748

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William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kent has received more than 334,007 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). William Kent is the 251st most popular architect (up from 273rd in 2019), the 1,911th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,079th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Architect.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, William Kent ranks 251 out of 518. Before him are Yan Liben, Gae Aulenti, Giovanni Giocondo, Kevin A. Lynch, Max Fabiani, and Josef Frank. After him are Hermann Tilke, Édouard André, Kengo Kuma, Lambert Lombard, Vittorio Gregotti, and Josep Maria Jujol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, William Kent ranks 16. Before him are Edward England, John Gay, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Farrukhsiyar, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, and Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Francesco Loredan, Dominikus Zimmermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, George Clifford III, and Jacob Theodor Klein. Among people deceased in 1748, William Kent ranks 12. Before him are Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, Muhammad Shah, and Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg. After him are Aleksei Chirikov, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Isaac Watts, James Thomson, Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and William Adam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Kent ranks 1,911 out of 8,785. Before him are James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Young (1741), Ronnie Biggs (1929), Julian Sands (1958), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), and William Jackson Hooker (1785). After him are William Watson (1715), William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Willibald (700), Gerald Gardner (1884), and Mary Cartwright (1900).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, William Kent ranks 12. Before him are Robert Adam (1728), David Chipperfield (1953), Michael Ventris (1922), Joseph Paxton (1803), John Nash (1752), and Archibald Leitch (1865). After him are Ralph Erskine (1914), Augustus Pugin (1812), Glenn Murcutt (1936), Charles Barry (1795), John Vanbrugh (1664), and Edwin Lutyens (1869).

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