1825 - 1902
William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet of Irish descent. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including "The Tay Bridge Disaster" and "The Famous Tay Whale", which are widely regarded as some of the worst in English literature. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William McGonagall has received more than 606,618 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William McGonagall is the 4,292nd most popular writer (down from 3,114th in 2019), the 3,255th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 388th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, William McGonagall ranks 4,292 out of 5,794. Before him are Béatrix Beck, Horatio Alger, Marguerite Audoux, Ann Druyan, František Čelakovský, and Dušan Kovačević. After him are Ioannis Chrysafis, José Luandino Vieira, Adolf Brand, Johan Henric Kellgren, Margery Allingham, and Eugene Znosko-Borovsky.
1914 - 2008
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 4,286
1832 - 1899
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 4,287
1863 - 1937
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 4,288
1949 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 4,289
1799 - 1852
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 4,290
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 4,291
1825 - 1902
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 4,292
1873 - 1932
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 4,293
1935 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 4,294
1874 - 1945
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 4,295
1751 - 1795
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 4,296
1904 - 1966
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 4,297
1884 - 1954
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 4,298
Among people born in 1825, William McGonagall ranks 61. Before him are Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ferdinand von Mueller, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Domingo Santa María, Emil Welti, and Anton Heinrich Springer. After him are Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, George Inness, R. M. Ballantyne, A. P. Hill, and John Lawrence LeConte. Among people deceased in 1902, William McGonagall ranks 60. Before him are Walter Hauser, John Wesley Powell, Johannes Wislicenus, Gustave Trouvé, Gleb Uspensky, and Emil Holub. After him are Julia Grant, Almon Brown Strowger, John Houlding, Franz Sigel, Walter Reed, and Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau.
1825 - 1901
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 55
1825 - 1896
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 56
1825 - 1888
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 57
1825 - 1889
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 58
1825 - 1899
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 59
1825 - 1891
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 60
1825 - 1902
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 61
1825 - 1893
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 62
1825 - 1877
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 63
1825 - 1894
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 64
1825 - 1894
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 65
1825 - 1865
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 66
1825 - 1883
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 67
1837 - 1902
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 54
1834 - 1902
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 55
1835 - 1902
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 56
1839 - 1902
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 57
1843 - 1902
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 58
1847 - 1902
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 59
1825 - 1902
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 60
1826 - 1902
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 61
1839 - 1902
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 62
1833 - 1902
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 63
1824 - 1902
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 64
1851 - 1902
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 65
1842 - 1902
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 66
Among people born in United Kingdom, William McGonagall ranks 3,255 out of 6,924. Before him are Simon Fuller (1960), Grey Owl (1888), William Robert Brooks (1844), Keith Campbell (1954), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), and Hywel Dda (880). After him are Michael Carrick (1981), Margery Allingham (1904), Peter Mark Roget (1779), Anthony Head (1954), David Richards (1952), and Edgar Wright (1974).
1960 - Present
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 3,249
1888 - 1938
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 3,250
1844 - 1921
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 3,251
1954 - 2012
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 3,252
1990 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 3,253
880 - 950
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 3,254
1825 - 1902
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 3,255
1981 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 3,256
1904 - 1966
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 3,257
1779 - 1869
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 3,258
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 3,259
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 3,260
1974 - Present
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 3,261
Among writers born in United Kingdom, William McGonagall ranks 388. Before him are Aneirin (525), John Mawe (1764), Sax Rohmer (1883), William Davenant (1606), Cynewulf (900), and Grey Owl (1888). After him are Margery Allingham (1904), Bruno Heller (1960), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Norman Smith (1923), Jonathan Coe (1961), and Walter Savage Landor (1775).
525 - 600
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 382
1764 - 1829
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 383
1883 - 1959
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 384
1606 - 1668
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 385
900 - 900
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 386
1888 - 1938
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 387
1825 - 1902
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 388
1904 - 1966
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 389
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 390
1835 - 1915
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 391
1923 - 2008
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 392
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 393
1775 - 1864
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 394