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Thomas More

1478 - 1535

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Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas More is the 63rd most popular philosopher (down from 54th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Philosopher.

Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, and statesman. He was Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532 and is best known for his influential work Utopia.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas More ranks 63 out of 1,267. Before him are Plotinus, Karl Popper, Ramakrishna, Zeno of Elea, Zhuang Zhou, and Epictetus. After him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Zhu Xi, Antonio Gramsci, Zeno of Citium, Xenophanes, and Gorgias.

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Among people born in 1478, Thomas More ranks 4. Before him are Pope Clement VII, Francisco Pizarro, and Hayreddin Barbarossa. After him are Philip I of Castile, Giorgione, Baldassare Castiglione, Jan Gossaert, John, Prince of Asturias, Pánfilo de Narváez, Sancha of Aragon, and Barbara Jagiellon. Among people deceased in 1535, Thomas More ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Francesco II Sforza, Lorenzo Costa, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Ippolito de' Medici, John Fisher, Gustav Trolle, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas More ranks 94 out of 8,785. Before him are Olav V of Norway (1903), Edward the Martyr (962), Virginia Woolf (1882), Francis Drake (1540), Charles Babbage (1791), and Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885). After him are Joseph Lister (1827), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Sean Connery (1930), Edward Jenner (1749), William Wallace (1270), and Oliver Cromwell (1599).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Thomas More ranks 5. Before him are Francis Bacon (1561), John Locke (1632), Thomas Hobbes (1588), and David Hume (1711). After him are Herbert Spencer (1820), Roger Bacon (1220), Jeremy Bentham (1748), William of Ockham (1285), Joseph Priestley (1733), John Wycliffe (1324), and Duns Scotus (1265).

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