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Alexander McCall Smith

1948 - Today

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Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith (born 24 August 1948) is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander McCall Smith has received more than 1,220,048 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander McCall Smith is the 4,631st most popular writer (down from 3,966th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Zimbabwe (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Zimbabwean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander McCall Smith ranks 4,631 out of 7,302. Before him are Łukasz Górnicki, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Friedrich von Hagedorn, James Agee, Oğuz Atay, and Adam Asnyk. After him are Ludwig Bechstein, Nancy Huston, W. S. Gilbert, Molla Vali Vidadi, Kostas Karyotakis, and Shuntarō Tanikawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Alexander McCall Smith ranks 406. Before him are Natalya Gundareva, Chris Mulkey, Lyudmila Karachkina, Eleonora Brown, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, and Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. After him are Vinko Jelovac, Oliver Shanti, Ivan Yarygin, Elias Khoury, Giuseppe Impastato, and Atilio Ancheta.

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In Zimbabwe

Among people born in Zimbabwe, Alexander McCall Smith ranks 11 out of 45. Before him are Canaan Banana (1936), Albert Lutuli (1898), Rupiah Banda (1937), Morgan Tsvangirai (1952), Joshua Nkomo (1917), and John Love (1924). After him are Abel Muzorewa (1925), Paula Hawkins (1972), Lobengula (1845), Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959), Roy Welensky (1907), and Phelekezela Mphoko (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Zimbabwe

Among writers born in Zimbabwe, Alexander McCall Smith ranks 1. After him are Paula Hawkins (1972), Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959), Chenjerai Hove (1956), Yvonne Vera (1964), NoViolet Bulawayo (1981), and Debora Patta (1964).

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