WRITER

Alan Ayckbourn

1939 - Today

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Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2024, 90 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Ayckbourn has received more than 523,367 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Ayckbourn is the 5,730th most popular writer (down from 5,035th in 2019), the 4,466th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,927th in 2019) and the 506th most popular British Writer.

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  • 520k

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  • 45.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alan Ayckbourn ranks 5,730 out of 7,302. Before him are Dmitri Prigov, Lőrinc Szabó, Pauline Baynes, Kito Lorenc, James E. Gunn, and David Mitchell. After him are Katri Vala, José Manuel Caballero, Jack McDevitt, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Charles Williams, and Can Dündar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Alan Ayckbourn ranks 482. Before him are Ted Kaufman, Erik Hansen, Gerry Goffin, R. C. Sproul, Al Unser, and Jan-Just Bos. After him are Chris Craft, Elizabeth Ashley, Jalal Dabagh, Koldo Aguirre, Rudolf Bayer, and Alexey Korneyev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Ayckbourn ranks 4,466 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Wolf (1946), George Coulouris (1903), John Dill (1881), Steve McQueen (1969), Pauline Baynes (1922), and David Mitchell (1969). After him are Howard Jones (1955), Simon Schama (1945), George Galloway (1954), Monty Norman (1928), Charles Williams (1886), and Andy Mackay (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alan Ayckbourn ranks 506. Before him are Abraham Cowley (1618), Peter Morgan (1963), Joe Orton (1933), Frederick Rolfe (1860), Pauline Baynes (1922), and David Mitchell (1969). After him are Charles Williams (1886), Julian Symons (1912), Nigella Lawson (1960), Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), and Richard K. Morgan (1965).

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