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Robert Burns

1759 - 1796

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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Burns is the 597th most popular writer (down from 550th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 388th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Writer.

Robert Burns is a Scottish poet, born in 1759. He is most famous for his poem "Auld Lang Syne" which is sung on New Year's Eve.

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Among writers, Robert Burns ranks 597 out of 7,302. Before him are William Makepeace Thackeray, Georges Perec, Antoine François Prévost, Denis of Portugal, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Su Shi. After him are Bell hooks, Gustav Meyrink, Paul Lafargue, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alfred de Musset, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Among people born in 1759, Robert Burns ranks 6. Before him are Friedrich Schiller, Georges Danton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Fouché, and William Pitt the Younger. After him are Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, James Edward Smith, Maria Feodorovna, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, and Clotilde of France. Among people deceased in 1796, Robert Burns ranks 4. Before him are Catherine the Great, Thomas Reid, and Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. After him are Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, James Macpherson, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Samuel Huntington, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Burns ranks 537 out of 8,785. Before him are John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Rudolf Abel (1903), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Patrick Stewart (1940), George Eliot (1819), and Charles Lyell (1797). After him are Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Robert Plant (1948), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Archibald Hill (1886), Adele (1988), and Peter Brook (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Burns ranks 58. Before him are Anthony Burgess (1917), James Hilton (1900), Beatrix Potter (1866), Frederick Forsyth (1938), John Donne (1572), and George Eliot (1819). After him are Harold Pinter (1930), Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), Alexander Pope (1688), and A. A. Milne (1882).

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