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Samuel Pepys

1633 - 1703

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Samuel Pepys ( PEEPS; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no maritime experience, Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both Charles II and James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the English Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Pepys is the 1,549th most popular writer (down from 1,247th in 2019), the 1,403rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 931st in 2019) and the 148th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Samuel Pepys ranks 1,549 out of 7,302. Before him are Marianne Weber, Hipponax, Sabino Arana, Manuel Puig, Hunter S. Thompson, and Clarissa Pinkola Estés. After him are Auguste Maquet, Richard Lovelace, Augusto Roa Bastos, Chernorizets Hrabar, Heiner Müller, and Hovhannes Tumanyan.

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Among people born in 1633, Samuel Pepys ranks 8. Before him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Abbas II of Persia, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, Kaya Sultan, and Bernardino Ramazzini. After him are Willem van de Velde the Younger, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Arsenije III Čarnojević, Geminiano Montanari, Willem Drost, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1703, Samuel Pepys ranks 9. Before him are Mustafa II, Man in the Iron Mask, John Wallis, Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, and Ilona Zrínyi. After him are Erik Dahlbergh, Maria de Dominici, Nicolas de Grigny, Charles de Saint-Évremond, Phetracha, and Thomas Kingo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Pepys ranks 1,403 out of 8,785. Before him are Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Seamus Heaney (1939), Bob Hope (1903), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), William Whewell (1794), and Saint David (512). After him are MF Doom (1971), Peter Burke (1937), Bill Shankly (1913), Liam Payne (1993), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), and Richard Lovelace (1617).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Pepys ranks 148. Before him are Alistair MacLean (1922), Winifred Wagner (1897), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Kate Atkinson (1951), and Seamus Heaney (1939). After him are Richard Lovelace (1617), John Brunner (1934), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Neil Gaiman (1960), Thomas Chatterton (1752), and Joseph Needham (1900).

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