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Samuel Butler

1835 - 1902

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Samuel Butler may refer to: Samuel Butler (poet) (1613–1680), English poet and satirist Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), English classical scholar Samuel Butler (politician) (1825–1891), American politician Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), English author of Erewhon Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), English cricketer Samuel Butler (lawyer) (1930–2025), American lawyer Sam Butler (footballer, born 1986), Australian rules footballer for West Coast Sam Butler (footballer, born 2003), Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn Bo Weavil Jackson (fl. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2024). Samuel Butler is the 461st most popular writer (up from 583rd in 2024), the 422nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 421st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Writer.

Samuel Butler is most famous for his satirical poem "Hudibras," which is a mock epic poem about the English Civil War.

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Among writers, Samuel Butler ranks 461 out of 7,302. Before him are Louis Aragon, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gabriela Mistral, Ahmad Yasawi, Baldassare Castiglione, and Dan Brown. After him are Statius, Thomas Bernhard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harper Lee, Mahmoud Darwish, and Eugene O'Neill.

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Among people born in 1835, Samuel Butler ranks 13. Before him are Adolf von Baeyer, Josef Stefan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, and Demetrius Vikelas. After him are Henryk Wieniawski, César Cui, Eduard Strauss, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and William Stanley Jevons. Among people deceased in 1902, Samuel Butler ranks 5. Before him are Émile Zola, Cecil Rhodes, Swami Vivekananda, and Rudolf Virchow. After him are Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 422 out of 8,785. Before him are Andrew Carnegie (1835), Philip Larkin (1922), Thomas De Quincey (1785), Margaret Tudor (1489), William Laud (1573), and Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486). After him are William Morris (1834), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), David Harvey (1935), Benjamin Britten (1913), and Timothy Dalton (1946).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 43. Before him are William Wordsworth (1770), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), Philip Larkin (1922), and Thomas De Quincey (1785). After him are Ken Follett (1949), Arnold Bennett (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Thomas Paine (1737), G. K. Chesterton (1874), and J. M. Barrie (1860).

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