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Robert G. Ingersoll

1833 - 1899

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Robert Green Ingersoll (; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert G. Ingersoll is the 4,181st most popular writer (up from 4,342nd in 2019), the 6,180th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,795th in 2019) and the 469th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert G. Ingersoll ranks 4,181 out of 7,302. Before him are John Gower, Sara Lidman, Žemaitė, Sakina Akhundzadeh, Eliza Acton, and Francis Marrash. After him are James Redfield, Vincenzo Cerami, Eggert Ólafsson, Luise Rinser, Walter Map, and Johann Georg von Hahn.

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Among people born in 1833, Robert G. Ingersoll ranks 59. Before him are Charles Horton Peck, Hortense Schneider, François Perrier, Gustaf Åkerhielm, Paul Bert, and John Anderson. After him are Segismundo Moret, Cándido Bareiro, Géza Fejérváry, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, and Ludwig von Brenner. Among people deceased in 1899, Robert G. Ingersoll ranks 61. Before him are Jacob Maris, Emil Welti, Ulises Heureaux, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Heymann Steinthal, and Constant Fornerod. After him are Adile Sultan, Max Lange, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Antonio Luna, Zsófia Torma, and Klaus Groth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert G. Ingersoll ranks 6,181 out of 20,380. Before him are Jenette Goldstein (1960), Cassandra Peterson (1951), Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1886), Joe Exotic (1963), Jack Kramer (1921), and Helen Jacobs (1908). After him are Louis Clarke (1901), James Redfield (1950), Amina Wadud (1952), Robert Picardo (1953), JoBeth Williams (1948), and Otto Warmbier (1994).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert G. Ingersoll ranks 469. Before him are Peter Straub (1943), Melissa Mathison (1950), Sonny Barger (1938), James Thurber (1894), Hart Crane (1899), and Edna Ferber (1885). After him are James Redfield (1950), Theodore Roszak (1933), Francis Davis Millet (1848), Thomas Berger (1924), Ida B. Wells (1862), and Tobias Wolff (1945).

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