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William Morris

1834 - 1896

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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Morris has received more than 4,451,933 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). William Morris is the 9th most popular designer (down from 7th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 254th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Designer.

William Morris was a socialist activist, poet, artist, and craftsman. He is most famous for his work in the Arts and Crafts Movement, which he founded with John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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  • 4.5M

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  • 68.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, William Morris ranks 9 out of 104. Before him are Ferdinand Porsche, Giorgio Armani, Peter Carl Fabergé, Gianni Versace, Thomas Andrews, and Paco Rabanne. After him are Aldus Manutius, Gerrit Rietveld, Giorgetto Giugiaro, László Moholy-Nagy, Michael Thonet, and Valentino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, William Morris ranks 7. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edgar Degas, Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, John Venn, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. After him are Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jan Neruda, and Julia Pastrana. Among people deceased in 1896, William Morris ranks 7. Before him are Alfred Nobel, Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Paul Verlaine, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, and August Kekulé. After him are Ivar Aasen, Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, José Rizal, John Everett Millais, and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Morris ranks 294 out of 8,785. Before him are George Michael (1963), John Logie Baird (1888), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Marianne Faithfull (1946), Charlie Watts (1941), and Ritchie Blackmore (1945). After him are Æthelred the Unready (968), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), Julie Andrews (1935), Randal Cremer (1828), Henry Morton Stanley (1841), and John Keats (1795).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, William Morris ranks 2. Before him are Thomas Andrews (1873). After him are Thomas Chippendale (1718), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Alexander McQueen (1969), Beau Brummell (1778), John Baskerville (1706), Paul Smith (1946), Laura Ashley (1925), Storm Thorgerson (1944), and Jony Ive (1967).

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