1904 - 1986
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Isherwood has received more than 1,537,116 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Christopher Isherwood is the 1,813th most popular writer (up from 1,886th in 2019), the 1,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,469th in 2019) and the 157th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Christopher Isherwood ranks 1,813 out of 5,755. Before him are Cornell Woolrich, Thomas Merton, Guido Adler, Ludwig Börne, Valery Bryusov, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After him are Antonio Skármeta, José de Acosta, Notker the Stammerer, Hjalmar Söderberg, Nicanor Parra, and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder.
1903 - 1968
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 1,807
1915 - 1968
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 1,808
1855 - 1941
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 1,809
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,810
1873 - 1924
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,811
1841 - 1889
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,812
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,813
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,814
1540 - 1600
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 1,815
840 - 912
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 1,816
1869 - 1941
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 1,817
1914 - 2018
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 1,818
1773 - 1798
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 1,819
Among people born in 1904, Christopher Isherwood ranks 94. Before him are Felix Nussbaum, Oskar R. Lange, Deng Yingchao, Edmond Hamilton, María Zambrano, and José Antonio Aguirre. After him are Heinz Jost, Mihai Antonescu, Jacques Tourneur, Edmund Veesenmayer, Emilio Fernández, and Karl Ernst. Among people deceased in 1986, Christopher Isherwood ranks 77. Before him are Lyudmila Rudenko, Gia Carangi, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Bernard Malamud, Elio de Angelis, and Alexandre Tansman. After him are Thierry Sabine, Ferdinand Daučík, Aleksandr Akimov, Pierre Fournier, Emilio Fernández, and Nicholas Kaldor.
1904 - 1944
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 88
1904 - 1965
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 89
1904 - 1992
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 90
1904 - 1977
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 91
1904 - 1991
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 92
1904 - 1960
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 93
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 94
1904 - 1964
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 95
1904 - 1946
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 96
1904 - 1977
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 97
1904 - 1977
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 98
1904 - 1986
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 99
1904 - 1934
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 100
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 71
1960 - 1986
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 72
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 73
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 74
1958 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 75
1897 - 1986
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 76
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 77
1949 - 1986
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 78
1910 - 1986
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 79
1953 - 1986
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 80
1906 - 1986
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 81
1904 - 1986
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 82
1908 - 1986
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 83
Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Isherwood ranks 1,426 out of 7,765. Before him are Frederick Delius (1862), Derek Jarman (1942), Malcolm McLaren (1946), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Greg Lake (1947), and Michael Scot (1175). After him are Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Ælle of Sussex (500), David Purley (1945), Robert Shaw (1927), and Patrick Macnee (1922).
1862 - 1934
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 1,420
1942 - 1994
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 1,421
1946 - 2010
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 1,422
1869 - 1952
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 1,423
1947 - 2016
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,424
1175 - 1232
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,425
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1,426
1737 - 1813
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 1,427
1885 - 1965
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 1,428
500 - 514
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 1,429
1945 - 1985
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 1,430
1927 - 1978
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 1,431
1922 - 2015
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 1,432
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Isherwood ranks 157. Before him are Aphra Behn (1640), Anne Perry (1938), Hugh Lofting (1886), William Caxton (1422), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), and Brian Aldiss (1925). After him are Lucinda Riley (1965), Anthony Trollope (1815), George MacDonald (1824), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), Sister Nivedita (1867), and Vita Sackville-West (1892).
1640 - 1689
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 151
1938 - 2023
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 152
1886 - 1947
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 153
1422 - 1491
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 154
1785 - 1828
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 155
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 156
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 157
1965 - 2021
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 158
1815 - 1882
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 159
1824 - 1905
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 160
1893 - 1957
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 161
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 162
1892 - 1962
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 163