WRITER

Joaquin Miller

1837 - 1913

Joaquin Miller

Cincinnatus Heine Miller ( SIN-sin-AY-təs HY-nə; September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller ( whah-KEEN), was an American poet, author, and frontiersman. He became known as the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras (1871). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joaquin Miller is the 7,087th most popular writer (down from 7,000th in 2024), the 15,841st most popular biography from United States (down from 15,578th in 2019) and the 1,114th most popular American Writer.

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Among people born in 1837, Joaquin Miller ranks 117. Before him are Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Georg Bühler, Mark Hanna, Charles Ammi Cutter, John Burroughs, and P. B. S. Pinchback. Among people deceased in 1913, Joaquin Miller ranks 97. Before him are Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Alphonse Kirchhoffer, Frederick Rolfe, Daniel David Palmer, Alfred Austin, and Alfred Lyttelton.

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Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann
MATHEMATICIAN
1837 - 1920
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 111
Georg Bühler
LINGUIST
1837 - 1898
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 112
Mark Hanna
POLITICIAN
1837 - 1904
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 113
Charles Ammi Cutter
INVENTOR
1837 - 1903
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 114
John Burroughs
WRITER
1837 - 1921
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 115
P. B. S. Pinchback
POLITICIAN
1837 - 1921
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 116
Joaquin Miller
WRITER
1837 - 1913
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 117