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 753,162 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). A. J. Cronin is the 544th most popular writer (up from 633rd in 2019), the 407th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 469th in 2019) and the 52nd 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 544 out of 5,794. Before him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Arthur Koestler, Bohumil Hrabal, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Salman Rushdie, and Al-Maʿarri. After him are Frantz Fanon, Appius Claudius Caecus, William of Rubruck, Georg Trakl, Natsume Sōseki, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
1884 - 1937
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 538
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 539
1914 - 1997
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 540
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 541
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 542
973 - 1057
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 543
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 544
1925 - 1961
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 545
340 BC - 273 BC
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 546
1220 - 1293
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 547
1887 - 1914
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 548
1867 - 1916
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 549
1922 - 2008
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 550
Among people born in 1896, A. J. Cronin ranks 23. Before him are Paula Hitler, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Anna Anderson, Howard Hawks, Milena Jesenská, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. After him are Dziga Vertov, Gerty Cori, Buenaventura Durruti, Ernst Udet, Donald Winnicott, and Italo Balbo. Among people deceased in 1981, A. J. Cronin ranks 14. Before him are Hans Adolf Krebs, Marcel Breuer, Frederica of Hanover, Soong Ching-ling, Natalie Wood, and William Holden. After him are Béla Guttmann, Joe Louis, Harold Urey, René Clair, Samuel Barber, and Omar Bradley.
1896 - 1960
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 17
1896 - 1985
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 18
1896 - 1984
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 19
1896 - 1977
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 20
1896 - 1944
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 21
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 22
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 23
1896 - 1954
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 24
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 25
1896 - 1936
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 26
1896 - 1941
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 27
1896 - 1971
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 28
1896 - 1940
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 29
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 8
1902 - 1981
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 9
1917 - 1981
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 10
1893 - 1981
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 11
1938 - 1981
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 12
1918 - 1981
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 13
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 14
1899 - 1981
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 15
1914 - 1981
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 16
1893 - 1981
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 17
1898 - 1981
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 18
1910 - 1981
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 19
1893 - 1981
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 20
Among people born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 407 out of 6,924. Before him are Frank Whittle (1907), George Paget Thomson (1892), James I of Scotland (1394), David Niven (1910), Richard Attenborough (1923), and Robert Fripp (1946). After him are Edward Victor Appleton (1892), Hugh Grant (1960), William Kidd (1645), Albert Finney (1936), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), and Ralph Fiennes (1962).
1907 - 1996
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 401
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 402
1394 - 1437
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 403
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 404
1923 - 2014
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 405
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 406
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 407
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 408
1960 - Present
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 409
1645 - 1701
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 410
1936 - 2019
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 411
1862 - 1937
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 412
1962 - Present
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 413
Among writers born in United Kingdom, A. J. Cronin ranks 52. Before him are Harold Pinter (1930), Thomas Paine (1737), Samuel Johnson (1709), George Eliot (1819), D. H. Lawrence (1885), and Philip Larkin (1922). After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Samuel Butler (1835), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Walter Raleigh (1554), and Thomas Hardy (1840).
1930 - 2008
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 46
1737 - 1809
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 47
1709 - 1784
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 48
1819 - 1880
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 49
1885 - 1930
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 50
1922 - 1985
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 51
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 52
1772 - 1834
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 53
1849 - 1924
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 54
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 55
1873 - 1912
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 56
1554 - 1618
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 57
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 58