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Charles Dickens

1812 - 1870

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Charles John Huffam Dickens ( ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Dickens is the 38th most popular writer (up from 39th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 28th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Writer.

Charles Dickens is most famous for his novels such as "A Christmas Carol" and "Oliver Twist".

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Among writers, Charles Dickens ranks 38 out of 7,302. Before him are Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, Khalil Gibran, Anne Frank, and George Orwell. After him are Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Horace, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Among people born in 1812, Charles Dickens ranks 1. After him are Kaspar Hauser, Johann Gottfried Galle, Théodore Rousseau, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Herzen, Louise of Orléans, Truganini, Augustus Pugin, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. Among people deceased in 1870, Charles Dickens ranks 2. Before him is Alexandre Dumas. After him are Prosper Mérimée, Robert E. Lee, Frédéric Bazille, Josef Strauss, Comte de Lautréamont, Alexander Herzen, Francisco Solano López, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Gabriel Lamé.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Dickens ranks 45 out of 8,785. Before him are Agatha Christie (1890), H. G. Wells (1866), Thomas Hobbes (1588), Edmond Halley (1656), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), and Mary I of England (1516). After him are Alan Turing (1912), Alexander Fleming (1881), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), Thomas Hardy (1840), Bernard Montgomery (1887), and James Cook (1728).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charles Dickens ranks 4. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Agatha Christie (1890), and H. G. Wells (1866). After him are Thomas Hardy (1840), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), and Lewis Carroll (1832).

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