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Winifred Wagner

1897 - 1980

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Winifred Marjorie Wagner (née Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the Bayreuth Festival after her husband's death in 1930 until the end of World War II in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winifred Wagner has received more than 430,764 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Winifred Wagner is the 1,460th most popular writer (down from 1,264th in 2019), the 1,108th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,015th in 2019) and the 126th most popular British Writer.

Winifred Wagner was a German composer and the daughter of composer Richard Wagner. She is most famous for her work with the Bayreuth Festival and the Wagner family.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Winifred Wagner ranks 1,460 out of 7,302Before her are Hovhannes Tumanyan, Maryse Condé, Paul Rée, Elizabeth George, Phrynichus, and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy. After her are Marie Anne Lenormand, Tristan Corbière, Jacques Cazotte, Lu You, Vicki Baum, and James Oliver Curwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Winifred Wagner ranks 77Before her are Thornton Wilder, Sepp Herberger, Philippe Soupault, Károly Kerényi, Jean Epstein, and Virginia Henderson. After her are Hans Speidel, Rouben Mamoulian, Carl Oberg, Judith Anderson, Tarjei Vesaas, and Shoghi Effendi. Among people deceased in 1980, Winifred Wagner ranks 68Before her are Heinz Linge, Ludwig Guttmann, Filipp Golikov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, and Seretse Khama. After her are Hugh Griffith, Tex Avery, Ernő Gerő, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, and Friedrich Hossbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Winifred Wagner ranks 1,108 out of 8,785Before her are Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936), Roger Scruton (1944), Mark Phillips (1948), George Shaw (1751), Stevie Young (1956), and Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473). After her are John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), James Meade (1907), Colin Dexter (1930), Frederic Leighton (1830), and Sydney Chaplin (1885).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Winifred Wagner ranks 126Before her are Lee Child (1954), Allan Pinkerton (1819), James Murray (1837), Robert Browning (1812), Jane Hawking (1944), and Seamus Heaney (1939). After her are Colin Dexter (1930), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Allen Carr (1934), and Lord Alfred Douglas (1870).