WRITER

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 - 1930

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Conan Doyle has received more than 9,933,169 page views. His biography is available in 120 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 114 in 2019). Arthur Conan Doyle is the 64th most popular writer (down from 50th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 39th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Writer.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is most famous for his Sherlock Holmes series.

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  • 79.10

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  • 120

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  • 9.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 64 out of 7,302. Before him are Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Giacomo Casanova, Ayn Rand, and Rabindranath Tagore. After him are Umberto Eco, Heinrich Heine, Romain Rolland, Bertolt Brecht, Nikolai Gogol, and Li Bai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 3. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Pierre Curie. After him are Henri Bergson, Knut Hamsun, L. L. Zamenhof, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Svante Arrhenius, Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Seurat, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1930, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 1. After him are Fridtjof Nansen, Alfred Wegener, Ilya Repin, Zewditu, Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Howard Taft, Allvar Gullstrand, Joan Gamper, Christiaan Eijkman, Fritz Pregl, and Miguel Primo de Rivera.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 45 out of 8,785. Before him are John Maynard Keynes (1883), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), John Lennon (1940), John Major (1943), John Dalton (1766), and Bertrand Russell (1872). After him are David Ricardo (1772), Cecil Rhodes (1853), Richard Burton (1925), Sean Connery (1930), Francis Drake (1540), and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 6. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Lord Byron (1788), Agatha Christie (1890), Charles Dickens (1812), and Jane Austen (1775). After him are Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Mary Shelley (1797).

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