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Alex Garland

1970 - Today

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Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alex Garland is the 5,994th most popular writer, the 4,838th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 542nd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Alex Garland ranks 5,994 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Russo, Sarah Moore Grimké, Vladimir Tendryakov, Liao Yiwu, Leszek Engelking, and Alexander Afinogenov. After him are Gardner Fox, W. S. Merwin, Lucy Hawking, Kristina Lugn, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Joel Lehtonen.

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Among people born in 1970, Alex Garland ranks 290. Before him are Serhiy Honchar, Kim Do-hoon, Joel Glazer, Vanna, Nia Long, and Arijan Komazec. After him are Randa Kassis, Cobi Jones, Leah Remini, Fumito Ueda, Sander Boschker, and Erkan Petekkaya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex Garland ranks 4,838 out of 8,785. Before him are Hubert Gough (1870), Geoffrey Hughes (1944), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886), Lynne Frederick (1954), Neil Innes (1944), and Henry Lawes (1595). After him are Rupert Holmes (1947), Lucy Hawking (1969), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983), Joe Spence (1898), Basil Dearden (1911), and Lawrence Stone (1919).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alex Garland ranks 542. Before him are Susan Cooper (1935), Hugh Blair (1718), Edmund Gosse (1849), William Bell Scott (1811), George Holyoake (1817), and Francis Chichester (1901). After him are Lucy Hawking (1969), David Storey (1933), Sarah Waters (1966), Philippa Pearce (1920), Sarah Trimmer (1741), and Anne Fine (1947).

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