WRITER

Andrew Davies

1936 - Today

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Andrew Wynford Davies (; born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, War & Peace, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Davies has received more than 21,126 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Andrew Davies is the 6,322nd most popular writer (down from 5,535th in 2019), the 5,427th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,615th in 2019) and the 618th most popular British Writer.

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  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrew Davies ranks 6,322 out of 7,302. Before him are Kari Hotakainen, Roddy Doyle, Sándor Csoóri, Christina Hoff Sommers, Victor Shenderovich, and Thomas Warton. After him are Wolf Blitzer, Samar Yazbek, Alyson Noël, Naomi Wolf, Henry Vaughan, and Tsai Chih-chung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Andrew Davies ranks 545. Before him are Dick Richards, Barbara Jordan, Charles Dierkop, James Bridges, Dimitar Largov, and K Callan. After him are George Eastham, Adán Godoy, Peter Hill-Wood, Kalevi Oikarainen, Leamon King, and Sylvia Browne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Davies ranks 5,427 out of 8,785. Before him are Alistair Darling (1953), Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814), Harry Golombek (1911), Richard Bauckham (1946), Thomas Warton (1728), and Bryan Forbes (1926). After him are Walter Smith (1948), George Lansbury (1859), Barry Atsma (1972), Peter Reid (1956), James Dunn (1939), and George Eastham (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Andrew Davies ranks 618. Before him are Joanna Baillie (1762), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Brian Moore (1921), Alastair Reynolds (1966), Dick King-Smith (1922), and Thomas Warton (1728). After him are Henry Vaughan (1621), William Roscoe (1753), Stella Gibbons (1902), Kathleen Raine (1908), Brian Friel (1929), and Angie Sage (1952).

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