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James Macpherson

1736 - 1796

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James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Macpherson is the 3,648th most popular politician (down from 3,349th in 2019), the 882nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 714th in 2019) and the 177th most popular British Politician.

James Macpherson is most famous for his Ossian poems. These poems were written in 1760 and 1761, but they were falsely claimed to be from the 3rd century.

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Among politicians, James Macpherson ranks 3,648 out of 19,576. Before him are Sancho IV of Castile, Edmond Debeaumarché, Domitianus II, Ulrich von Jungingen, Agis IV, and Siim Kallas. After him are Jahan Shah, Roman the Great, Christina of Lorraine, Midhat Pasha, Francis Phoebus of Navarre, and Mohammad-Ali Rajai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, James Macpherson ranks 7. Before him are James Watt, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Rama I, and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. After him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus. Among people deceased in 1796, James Macpherson ranks 7. Before him are Catherine the Great, Thomas Reid, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Robert Burns, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Samuel Huntington, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, and Johann Daniel Titius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Macpherson ranks 882 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), David Irving (1938), Rex Harrison (1908), Chris Rea (1951), and Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897). After him are Percy Fawcett (1867), Robbie Williams (1974), Bobby Robson (1933), David McCallum (1933), Samuel Butler (1612), and Eugen d'Albert (1864).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Macpherson ranks 177. Before him are James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), Eadwig (940), Ælla of Northumbria (800), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), and Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872). After him are Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth (1876), Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), and William Wilberforce (1759).

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