1955 - Today
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carol Ann Duffy has received more than 1,517,784 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Carol Ann Duffy is the 6,116th most popular writer (down from 5,438th in 2019), the 5,715th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,149th in 2019) and the 635th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 6,116 out of 5,755. Before her are Boris Izaguirre, Michael Arndt, Faye Kellerman, Brené Brown, Marie Darrieussecq, and Ken Liu. After her are David Sedaris, Vin Scully, Robert Bridges, Shirley Ann Grau, Parveen Shakir, and Miro Gavran.
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.54
Rank: 6,110
1970 - Present
HPI: 36.53
Rank: 6,111
1952 - Present
HPI: 36.53
Rank: 6,112
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.52
Rank: 6,113
1969 - Present
HPI: 36.52
Rank: 6,114
1976 - Present
HPI: 36.51
Rank: 6,115
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.51
Rank: 6,116
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.50
Rank: 6,117
1927 - 2022
HPI: 36.48
Rank: 6,118
1844 - 1930
HPI: 36.47
Rank: 6,119
1929 - 2020
HPI: 36.46
Rank: 6,120
1952 - 1994
HPI: 36.45
Rank: 6,121
1961 - Present
HPI: 36.45
Rank: 6,122
Among people born in 1955, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 552. Before her are Susie Essman, Don Hahn, Anthony Dod Mantle, Roland Brückner, Rick Mitchell, and Christopher Lawford. After her are Mike Parson, Steven Wright, Gernot Jurtin, Patrizio Sala, Mary Black, and Donald Pettit.
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.86
Rank: 546
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.85
Rank: 547
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.83
Rank: 548
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.82
Rank: 549
1955 - 2021
HPI: 36.59
Rank: 550
1955 - 2018
HPI: 36.57
Rank: 551
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.51
Rank: 552
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.44
Rank: 553
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.39
Rank: 554
1955 - 2006
HPI: 36.34
Rank: 555
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.34
Rank: 556
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.33
Rank: 557
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.28
Rank: 558
Among people born in United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 5,715 out of 7,765. Before her are David Gandy (1980), Sonia Robertson (1947), Edward Andrade (1887), Philip May (1957), Robson Green (1964), and Michael Kiwanuka (1987). After her are Lustmord (1964), Japhet Tanganga (1999), Alison Carroll (1985), Simon Yates (1992), Lucy Punch (1977), and John Boyega (1992).
1980 - Present
HPI: 36.58
Rank: 5,709
1947 - Present
HPI: 36.56
Rank: 5,710
1887 - 1971
HPI: 36.55
Rank: 5,711
1957 - Present
HPI: 36.55
Rank: 5,712
1964 - Present
HPI: 36.53
Rank: 5,713
1987 - Present
HPI: 36.52
Rank: 5,714
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.51
Rank: 5,715
1964 - Present
HPI: 36.51
Rank: 5,716
1999 - Present
HPI: 36.50
Rank: 5,717
1985 - Present
HPI: 36.50
Rank: 5,718
1992 - Present
HPI: 36.50
Rank: 5,719
1977 - Present
HPI: 36.49
Rank: 5,720
1992 - Present
HPI: 36.49
Rank: 5,721
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 635. Before her are Alfred Austin (1835), Thomas Shadwell (1642), Nina Bawden (1925), Clemence Dane (1888), Charles Stross (1964), and Hugh MacDiarmid (1892). After her are Robert Bridges (1844), Sebastian Faulks (1953), Eric Linklater (1899), Sabine Baring-Gould (1834), Tom Rob Smith (1979), and John Mortimer (1923).
1835 - 1913
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 629
1642 - 1692
HPI: 36.89
Rank: 630
1925 - 2012
HPI: 36.87
Rank: 631
1888 - 1965
HPI: 36.69
Rank: 632
1964 - Present
HPI: 36.69
Rank: 633
1892 - 1978
HPI: 36.61
Rank: 634
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.51
Rank: 635
1844 - 1930
HPI: 36.47
Rank: 636
1953 - Present
HPI: 36.42
Rank: 637
1899 - 1974
HPI: 36.33
Rank: 638
1834 - 1924
HPI: 35.98
Rank: 639
1979 - Present
HPI: 35.90
Rank: 640
1923 - 2009
HPI: 35.89
Rank: 641