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Peter Ackroyd

English author (born 1949)

1949 - today

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His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2024). Peter Ackroyd is the 4,903rd most popular writer (down from 4,672nd in 2024), the 3,858th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,370th in 2019) and the 418th most popular British Writer.

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Peter Ackroyd's biography spans 34 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 55.98.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Peter Ackroyd ranks 4,903 out of 7,707. Before him are Lucy Hawking, Sultan Bahu, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Paul Theroux, Tua Forsström, and Dương Thu Hương. After him are Eugenio Espejo, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, Steven Millhauser, Antoni Malczewski, Kamala Surayya, and Steven Erikson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Ackroyd ranks 458. Before him are Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Danuta Wałęsa, Tommy Seebach, Loretta Devine, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, and Jerzy Gorgoń. After him are Kiran Bedi, Mwepu Ilunga, Helena Fibingerová, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Patrick Kilpatrick, and Klaus Ludwig.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 3,858 out of 9,870. Before him are Clare Hollingworth (1911), Jon Hiseman (1944), Leslie Marr (1922), Tom Daley (1994), Lucy Hawking (1969), and Howard Stringer (1942). After him are Simon Donaldson (1957), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), Frederick William Beechey (1796), Charles Jarrott (1927), John Collins (1968), and Margaret Beckett (1943).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 418. Before him are Roger Ascham (1515), Helen Fielding (1958), Ronald Knox (1888), Hanif Kureishi (1954), Clare Hollingworth (1911), and Lucy Hawking (1969). After him are Alex Garland (1970), Eva Crane (1912), Anna Löwenstein (1951), Cynewulf (900), W. W. Jacobs (1863), and George Borrow (1803).

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