64.9% of matchups won
342 matchups
Elo 1582
tracked 2025/05/26 → 2026/09/24
mission: Promote art, ethics, education · Art and social reform · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing65%
picked as helping wellbeing
288 matchups
67%
picked as hurting wellbeing
54 matchups
People are split on it.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Bertrand Russell
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58.7% wins · British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
02
John Wilkes
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68.4% wins · English radical, journalist, and politician (1725–1797)
03
William Blake
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59.7% wins · English poet and artist (1757–1827)
04
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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22.4% wins · English poet, literary critic and philosopher
05
Jan Hus
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38.1% wins · Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369–1415)
Known for
- Authored Modern Painters
- Founded Guild of St George
- Oxford's first Slade Professor
- Pioneered art criticism
- Influenced environmentalism
Based on 342 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/24. Full rankings ·
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