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Dick Francis

1920 - 2010

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Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. He came to further prominence in 1956 as jockey to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, riding her horse Devon Loch which fell when close to winning the Grand National. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Francis has received more than 693,169 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Dick Francis is the 2,079th most popular writer (up from 2,292nd in 2019), the 1,630th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,726th in 2019) and the 176th most popular British Writer.

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  • 690k

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  • 54.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dick Francis ranks 2,079 out of 5,755Before him are Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Auguste Maquet, Patrick O'Brian, Isaac Alfasi, Bernard Palissy, and Djuna Barnes. After him are Gurju Khatun, João Guimarães Rosa, Nicholas Rémy, Maurice Sendak, Miloš Crnjanski, and Almeida Garrett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Dick Francis ranks 132Before him are Albert Memmi, Michael Anderson, Paik Sun-yup, Richard Adams, Yegor Ligachyov, and Miguel Delibes. After him are Yevgeny Dragunov, Christopher Robin Milne, Viveca Lindfors, Richard Farnsworth, Amet-khan Sultan, and Harold Sakata. Among people deceased in 2010, Dick Francis ranks 94Before him are Maurice Wilkes, Martin Sandberger, Howard Zinn, Miguel Delibes, Erich Segal, and Vladislav Ardzinba. After him are Alexander Haig, Raimon Panikkar, Fess Parker, Cécile Aubry, Luis García Berlanga, and Dimitrios Ioannidis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dick Francis ranks 1,630 out of 7,765Before him are Marjorie Bruce (1297), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Kingsley Amis (1922), Lord Guildford Dudley (1536), Patrick O'Brian (1914), and Michael Halliday (1925). After him are Catherine Ashton (1956), Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694), Duncan Haldane (1951), James Hilton (1900), Roger Deakins (1949), and Colin Davis (1927).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dick Francis ranks 176Before him are Philip Sidney (1554), Richard Adams (1920), Taliesin (518), Frederick Marryat (1792), Kingsley Amis (1922), and Patrick O'Brian (1914). After him are James Hilton (1900), David Lodge (1935), John Mandeville (1300), Vera Brittain (1893), Thomas Gray (1716), and Christina Rossetti (1830).