1813 - 1893
Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Smith has received more than 150,298 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Smith is the 2,626th most popular writer (up from 2,701st in 2019), the 1,994th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,975th in 2019) and the 232nd most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, William Smith ranks 2,626 out of 5,794. Before him are Aleksander Fredro, Edvard Kocbek, Edith Pargeter, Jung Chang, Nikoloz Baratashvili, and John Banville. After him are Lev Kopelev, Joseph Delaney, Stefanie Zweig, Maksim Bahdanovič, Lois Lowry, and Waldemar Bonsels.
1793 - 1876
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 2,620
1904 - 1981
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 2,621
1913 - 1995
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 2,622
1952 - Present
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 2,623
1817 - 1845
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 2,624
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 2,625
1813 - 1893
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 2,626
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 2,627
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 2,628
1932 - 2014
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 2,629
1891 - 1917
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 2,630
1937 - Present
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 2,631
1880 - 1952
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 2,632
Among people born in 1813, William Smith ranks 33. Before him are Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Juan Pablo Duarte, Frederick Scott Archer, Matthias Castrén, Agostino Depretis, and Charles Blanc. After him are Adolph Kolping, Alexander Parkes, Ludwig Leichhardt, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Stephen Heller, and Carl Jaenisch. Among people deceased in 1893, William Smith ranks 35. Before him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Rudolf Wolf, Alexander Cunningham, Nikolai Zverev, George Tupou I, and Manuel González Flores. After him are Matsudaira Katamori, Robert Cornelius, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Anton von Schmerling, and Jean Dufresne.
1813 - 1854
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 27
1813 - 1876
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 28
1813 - 1857
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 29
1813 - 1852
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 30
1813 - 1887
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 31
1813 - 1882
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 32
1813 - 1893
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 33
1813 - 1865
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 34
1813 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 35
1813 - 1848
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 36
1813 - 1878
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 37
1813 - 1888
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 38
1813 - 1872
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 39
1815 - 1893
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 29
1816 - 1893
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 30
1814 - 1893
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 31
1832 - 1893
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 32
1797 - 1893
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 33
1833 - 1893
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 34
1813 - 1893
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 35
1836 - 1893
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 36
1809 - 1893
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 37
1817 - 1893
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 38
1824 - 1893
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 39
1805 - 1893
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 40
1829 - 1893
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 41
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Smith ranks 1,994 out of 6,924. Before him are Dua Lipa (1995), Æthelfrith (600), John William Draper (1811), Thomas Beecham (1879), Edith Pargeter (1913), and James Legge (1815). After him are Bill Foulkes (1932), Joseph Delaney (1945), June Whitfield (1925), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Herbert Chapman (1878), and Frank P. Ramsey (1903).
1995 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 1,988
600 - 616
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 1,989
1811 - 1882
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 1,990
1879 - 1961
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 1,991
1913 - 1995
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 1,992
1815 - 1897
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 1,993
1813 - 1893
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 1,994
1932 - 2013
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 1,995
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 1,996
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 1,997
1833 - 1912
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 1,998
1878 - 1934
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 1,999
1903 - 1930
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 2,000
Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Smith ranks 232. Before him are Wilfred Owen (1893), Winston Graham (1908), Walter Pater (1839), Kay Parker (1944), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), and Edith Pargeter (1913). After him are Joseph Delaney (1945), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Rupert Brooke (1887), Jack Higgins (1929), Philip Kerr (1956), and Christopher Robin Milne (1920).
1893 - 1918
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 226
1908 - 2003
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 227
1839 - 1894
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 228
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 229
1110 - 1167
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 230
1913 - 1995
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 231
1813 - 1893
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 232
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 233
1785 - 1828
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 234
1887 - 1915
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 235
1929 - Present
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 236
1956 - 2018
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 237
1920 - 1996
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 238