WRITER

Alan Bennett

1934 - Today

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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including two BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. In 2005 he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Bennett has received more than 3,560,375 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alan Bennett is the 4,531st most popular writer (down from 4,252nd in 2019), the 3,244th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,155th in 2019) and the 367th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alan Bennett ranks 4,531 out of 7,302. Before him are Elisabetta Dami, Leopold Andrian, Quim Monzó, Timothy Zahn, Wen Yiduo, and Norman Spinrad. After him are Gyula Illyés, Jens Bjørneboe, Juan Montalvo, M. Ageyev, Alexander Bek, and Georges Courteline.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Alan Bennett ranks 320. Before him are Lew Hoad, Turan Dursun, Roy Kerr, Roger Norrington, Lyudmila Shevtsova, and Tomás Eloy Martínez. After him are Kamala Surayya, Tonina Torrielli, Jayakanthan, Amiri Baraka, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, and Elżbieta Krzesińska.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Bennett ranks 3,244 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341), John Benbow (1653), Wilfrid (634), Jeremy Thorpe (1929), Diana Dors (1931), and Richard O'Brien (1942). After him are Martin McGuinness (1950), Jonathan Wild (1683), Andy Goldsworthy (1956), Davy Jones (1945), Lady Byron (1792), and Dick Turpin (1705).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alan Bennett ranks 367. Before him are Arthur Ransome (1884), Joe Abercrombie (1974), Robert Greene (1558), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Walter Savage Landor (1775), and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810). After him are Isaac Watts (1674), George Chapman (1559), Lydia Becker (1827), Gilbert Adair (1944), Ronald Knox (1888), and W. S. Gilbert (1836).

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