WRITER

John Cleland

1709 - 1789

John Cleland

John Cleland (24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Cleland is the 2,987th most popular writer (up from 2,998th in 2019), the 2,455th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,188th in 2019) and the 271st most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, John Cleland ranks 2,987 out of 7,302. Before him are Willibald Pirckheimer, L. Sprague de Camp, Félix Fénéon, Dominique Lapierre, Crates, and Stefanie Zweig. After him are Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Bruce Sterling, Friedrich von Lütke, Xanthus, Heinrich Vogeler, and Francis Beaumont.

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Willibald Pirckheimer
1470 - 1530
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 2,981
L. Sprague de Camp
1907 - 2000
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 2,982
Félix Fénéon
1861 - 1944
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 2,983
Dominique Lapierre
1931 - 2022
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 2,984
Crates
350 BC - Present
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 2,985
Stefanie Zweig
1932 - 2014
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 2,986
John Cleland
1709 - 1789
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 2,987
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
1755 - 1794
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 2,988
Bruce Sterling
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 2,989
Friedrich von Lütke
1797 - 1882
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 2,990
Xanthus
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 2,991
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1872 - 1942
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 2,992
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1584 - 1616
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 2,993

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, John Cleland ranks 20. Before him are Franz Xaver Richter, Charles de Brosses, Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Alexei Razumovsky. After him are Antonio Rinaldi, Francesco Araja, Molla Vali Vidadi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, and Charles Avison. Among people deceased in 1789, John Cleland ranks 17. Before him are Petrus Camper, Thomas Nelson Jr., Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Paolo Renier, and Jafar Khan. After him are Anders Dahl, Jakob II Bernoulli, Paul Egede, Sayed Morad Khan, Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Jack Broughton.

Others Born in 1709

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Franz Xaver Richter
COMPOSER
1709 - 1789
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 14
Charles de Brosses
WRITER
1709 - 1777
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 15
Étienne de Silhouette
POLITICIAN
1709 - 1767
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 16
Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
ASTRONOMER
1709 - 1788
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 17
Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
POLITICIAN
1709 - 1729
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 18
Alexei Razumovsky
COMPANION
1709 - 1771
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 19
John Cleland
WRITER
1709 - 1789
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 20
Antonio Rinaldi
ARCHITECT
1709 - 1794
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 21
Francesco Araja
COMPOSER
1709 - 1770
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 22
Molla Vali Vidadi
WRITER
1709 - 1809
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 23
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
WRITER
1709 - 1777
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 24
Charles Avison
COMPOSER
1709 - 1770
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 25

Others Deceased in 1789

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Petrus Camper
PHYSICIAN
1722 - 1789
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 11
Thomas Nelson Jr.
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1738 - 1789
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 12
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
ECONOMIST
1715 - 1789
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 13
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1715 - 1789
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 14
Paolo Renier
POLITICIAN
1710 - 1789
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 15
Jafar Khan
POLITICIAN
1800 - 1789
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 16
John Cleland
WRITER
1709 - 1789
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 17
Anders Dahl
BIOLOGIST
1751 - 1789
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 18
Jakob II Bernoulli
PHYSICIST
1759 - 1789
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 19
Paul Egede
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1708 - 1789
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 20
Sayed Morad Khan
POLITICIAN
1800 - 1789
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 21
Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
NOBLEMAN
1730 - 1789
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 22
Jack Broughton
ATHLETE
1703 - 1789
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 23