1896 - 1981
Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a doctor in Harley Street. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. J. Cronin has received more than 955,704 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 44 in 2019). A. J. Cronin is the 728th most popular writer (down from 544th in 2019), the 588th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 407th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Writer.
A. J. Cronin is most famous for his novel The Citadel, which is a fictionalized account of his own experiences as a doctor in the slums of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Among writers, A. J. Cronin ranks 728 out of 5,755. Before him are Tatian, Antonio Machado, Raymond Carver, Julius Fučík, Alexander Griboyedov, and Epicharmus of Kos. After him are Marie Mancini, Alexander Litvinenko, Kōbō Abe, Mary Higgins Clark, Aubrey Beardsley, and Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi.
120 - 180
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 722
1875 - 1939
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 723
1938 - 1988
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 724
1903 - 1943
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 725
1795 - 1829
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 726
524 BC - 435 BC
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 727
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 728
1639 - 1715
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 729
1962 - 2006
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 730
1924 - 1993
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 731
1927 - 2020
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 732
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 733
189 BC - 110 BC
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 734
Among people born in 1896, A. J. Cronin ranks 35. Before him are Italo Balbo, Erich Koch, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Anna Anderson, Carl Ferdinand Cori, and John Dos Passos. After him are Herbert Backe, Sandro Pertini, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Nobusuke Kishi, Anastasio Somoza García, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Among people deceased in 1981, A. J. Cronin ranks 23. Before him are Marcel Breuer, Odd Hassel, Joe Louis, Harold Urey, William Saroyan, and Omar Bradley. After him are Samuel Barber, Georges Brassens, Joseph Murphy, Karl Böhm, Max Delbrück, and Mehmet Shehu.
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 29
1896 - 1986
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 30
1896 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 31
1896 - 1984
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 32
1896 - 1984
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 33
1896 - 1970
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 34
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 35
1896 - 1947
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 36
1896 - 1990
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 37
1896 - 1966
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 38
1896 - 1987
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 39
1896 - 1956
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 40
1896 - 1974
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 41
1902 - 1981
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 17
1897 - 1981
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 18
1914 - 1981
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 19
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 20
1908 - 1981
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 21
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 22
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 23
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 24
1921 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 25
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 26
1894 - 1981
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 27
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 28
1913 - 1981
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 29
Among people born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 588 out of 7,765. Before him are Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Sean Bean (1959), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), and Denis Law (1940). After him are Ian Stewart (1938), John Harvard (1607), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Peter Greenaway (1942), Philippa of Lancaster (1360), and Dirk Bogarde (1921).
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 582
810 - 858
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 583
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 584
1897 - 1967
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 585
1862 - 1938
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 586
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 587
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 588
1938 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 589
1607 - 1638
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 590
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 591
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 592
1360 - 1415
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 593
1921 - 1999
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 594
Among writers born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 69. Before him are Walter Raleigh (1554), Thomas Hardy (1840), Tony Buzan (1942), Alexander Pope (1688), Frederick Forsyth (1938), and David Irving (1938). After him are Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Ann Radcliffe (1764), Douglas Adams (1952), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Julian Barnes (1946), and Ernest Thompson Seton (1860).
1554 - 1618
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 63
1840 - 1928
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 64
1942 - 2019
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 65
1688 - 1744
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 66
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 67
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 68
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 69
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 70
1764 - 1823
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 71
1952 - 2001
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 72
1934 - 2011
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 73
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 74
1860 - 1946
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 75