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Walter Scott

1771 - 1832

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature. As an advocate and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Scott is the 169th most popular writer (down from 144th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 95th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Writer.

Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 19th century. He is particularly famous for his works "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," and "Rob Roy," which helped popularize historical fiction as a literary genre.

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Among writers, Walter Scott ranks 169 out of 7,302. Before her are Jean Racine, Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, Heinrich Böll, and Robert Louis Stevenson. After her are Rudyard Kipling, Pindar, Nicolas Flamel, André Breton, Wisława Szymborska, and William Faulkner.

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Among people born in 1771, Walter Scott ranks 1. After her are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Robert Owen, Emperor Kōkaku, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Richard Trevithick, Julie Clary, Antoine-Jean Gros, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Alois Senefelder, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and Marie François Xavier Bichat. Among people deceased in 1832, Walter Scott ranks 5. Before her are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, and Jean-François Champollion. After her are Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Rasmus Rask, Muzio Clementi, Jean-Baptiste Say, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Scott ranks 150 out of 8,785. Before her are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Nicholas Winton (1909), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), William Ramsay (1852), J. M. W. Turner (1775), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850). After her are Alan Rickman (1946), Marianne Faithfull (1946), Thomas Andrews (1873), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), Neville Chamberlain (1869), and Liam Neeson (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Walter Scott ranks 17. Before her are Jane Austen (1775), Lewis Carroll (1832), Emily Brontë (1818), Mary Shelley (1797), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850). After her are Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Aldous Huxley (1894), and Terry Pratchett (1948).

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