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Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays, and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oscar Wilde is the 59th most popular writer (down from 58th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 1st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Writer.

Oscar Wilde is most famous for his witty and satirical comments on society and culture. He is also famous for being the author of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest."

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Among writers, Oscar Wilde ranks 59 out of 7,302. Before him are Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, and Astrid Lindgren. After him are Mark Twain, Henrik Ibsen, Stendhal, Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, and Bertolt Brecht.

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Among people born in 1854, Oscar Wilde ranks 2. Before him is Pope Benedict XV. After him are Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Poincaré, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, and James George Frazer. Among people deceased in 1900, Oscar Wilde ranks 2. Before him is Friedrich Nietzsche. After him are Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Steinitz, Max Müller, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and John Sherman.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oscar Wilde ranks 2 out of 549. Before him are James Joyce (1882). After him are Richard Harris (1930), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), George Berkeley (1685), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Oscar Wilde ranks 2. Before him are James Joyce (1882). After him are George Bernard Shaw (1856), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Saint Gall (550).

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