WRITER

Cory Doctorow

1971 - Today

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Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licences for his books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cory Doctorow has received more than 1,571,934 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Cory Doctorow is the 6,805th most popular writer (down from 6,016th in 2019), the 839th most popular biography from Canada (down from 724th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cory Doctorow ranks 6,805 out of 7,302. Before him are Marcel Beyer, Julia Franck, Maxine Hong Kingston, Deborah Harkness, Jim Butcher, and Jonathan Lethem. After him are Kaori Ekuni, Russell Hoban, Mary L. Trump, Anne Waldman, José Luís Peixoto, and Lutz Seiler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Cory Doctorow ranks 583. Before him are Taye Diggs, Melinda Kinnaman, Jim Butcher, Davide Gualtieri, David Rikl, and Robin Finck. After him are Khaled Massad, Randy Blythe, Federico Giunti, Alphonse Tchami, Oleg Tsokov, and Dietmar Kühbauer.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Cory Doctorow ranks 839 out of 1,622. Before him are Caroline Dhavernas (1978), Daniel Cudmore (1981), Timothy Findley (1930), Frank Fisher (1901), Conrad Black (1944), and Martin St. Louis (1975). After him are Paulo Costanzo (1978), Meghan Ory (1982), Hazel McCallion (1921), Milt Schmidt (1918), Jordan Prentice (1973), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Cory Doctorow ranks 47. Before him are E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Élie Blanchard (1881), Gregory Colbert (1960), Ed Greenwood (1959), Mavis Gallant (1922), and Timothy Findley (1930). After him are Robert C. Cooper (1968), Rachel Cusk (1967), Geoff Ryman (1951), Anne Michaels (1958), Stephanie Savage (1969), and Eleanor Catton (1985).

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