1919 - 2013
Doris May Lessing (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Doris Lessing has received more than 1,660,552 page views. Her biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Doris Lessing is the 240th most popular writer (down from 215th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 24th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Writer.
Doris Lessing is most famous for her novels, which include The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, and The Good Terrorist.
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Among writers, Doris Lessing ranks 240 out of 5,755. Before her are Anna Wintour, François de La Rochefoucauld, Anna Akhmatova, Philip K. Dick, Coen brothers, and Torquato Tasso. After her are Nelly Sachs, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jacob Grimm, Sallust, J. K. Rowling, and Germaine de Staël.
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 234
1613 - 1680
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 235
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 236
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 237
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 238
1544 - 1595
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 239
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 240
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 241
1201 - 1274
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 242
1785 - 1863
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 243
86 BC - 34 BC
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 244
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 245
1766 - 1817
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 246
Among people born in 1919, Doris Lessing ranks 6. Before her are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Eva Perón, J. D. Salinger, and Edmund Hillary. After her are Desmond Doss, Primo Levi, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, and Lino Ventura. Among people deceased in 2013, Doris Lessing ranks 4. Before her are Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Kalashnikov. After her are Hugo Chávez, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Peter O'Toole, Jorge Rafael Videla, Frederick Sanger, Paul Walker, and Tom Clancy.
1919 - 1980
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 1
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 2
1919 - 1952
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 3
1919 - 2010
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 4
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 5
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 6
1919 - 2006
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 7
1919 - 1987
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 8
1919 - 2005
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 9
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 10
1919 - 1991
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 11
1919 - 1987
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 12
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1925 - 2013
HPI: 83.20
Rank: 2
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 3
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 4
1954 - 2013
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 5
1921 - 2013
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 6
1911 - 2013
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 7
1932 - 2013
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 8
1925 - 2013
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 9
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 10
1973 - 2013
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 11
1947 - 2013
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 12
Among people born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 32 out of 528. Before her are Nizam al-Mulk (1018), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Khosrow I (501), Darius II (-475), Ferdowsi (940), and Salman the Persian (568). After her are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Reza Shah (1878), Antiochus III the Great (-241), Ardashir I (180), Shapur I (150), and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817).
1018 - 1092
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 26
1078 - 1166
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 27
501 - 579
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 28
475 BC - 404 BC
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 29
940 - 1020
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 30
568 - 657
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 31
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 32
1201 - 1274
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 33
1878 - 1944
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 34
241 BC - 187 BC
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 35
180 - 242
HPI: 70.78
Rank: 36
150 - 270
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 37
817 - 875
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 38
Among writers born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 6. Before her are Ismail I (1487), Hafez (1325), Abu Nuwas (762), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), and Ferdowsi (940). After her are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Attar of Nishapur (1145), and Magtymguly Pyragy (1733).
1487 - 1524
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 1
1325 - 1389
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 2
762 - 814
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 3
858 - 922
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 4
940 - 1020
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 5
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 6
1201 - 1274
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 7
1185 - 1248
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 8
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 9
1414 - 1492
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 10
1145 - 1220
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 11
1733 - 1807
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 12