WRITER

Alma Reville

1899 - 1982

Photo of Alma Reville

Icon of person Alma Reville

Alma Lucy Reville, Lady Hitchcock (14 August 1899 – 6 July 1982) was an English screenwriter and film editor. She was the wife of film director Alfred Hitchcock. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alma Reville has received more than 1,646,001 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Alma Reville is the 1,291st most popular writer (up from 1,703rd in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,345th in 2019) and the 116th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alma Reville ranks 1,291 out of 7,302Before her are Herrad of Landsberg, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Judah Leon Abravanel, Cratinus, Thomas Chatterton, and Poul Anderson. After her are Victor Serge, Jakob Wassermann, Alexander Radishchev, Matthew Lewis, P. G. Wodehouse, and Javier Marías.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Alma Reville ranks 57Before her are Henri Michaux, P. L. Travers, Louis Hjelmslev, Lao She, Lev Kuleshov, and Andrei Platonov. After her are Fritz Bayerlein, Brassaï, Ludwig Guttmann, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Philipp Bouhler, and Georges Bidault. Among people deceased in 1982, Alma Reville ranks 58Before her are Takashi Shimura, Thelonious Monk, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Mario Del Monaco, Vinoba Bhave, and Philip Noel-Baker. After her are Marty Feldman, Giovanni Ferrari, Anna German, Otto Hofmann, Colin Chapman, and Adolf Heusinger.

Others Born in 1899

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1982

Go to all Rankings

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alma Reville ranks 968 out of 8,785Before her are Alan Moore (1953), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Natasha Richardson (1963), Thomas Chatterton (1752), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Ida Noddack (1896). After her are John Boyd Orr (1880), James Jeans (1877), Matthew Lewis (1775), Victoria Beckham (1974), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), and PJ Harvey (1969).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alma Reville ranks 116Before her are John Dryden (1631), Arthur Hailey (1920), Samuel Pepys (1633), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Lobsang Rampa (1910), and Thomas Chatterton (1752). After her are Matthew Lewis (1775), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Neil Gaiman (1960), Lee Child (1954), Allan Pinkerton (1819), and James Murray (1837).