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Douglas Adams

1952 - 2001

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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books which sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Adams has received more than 5,538,344 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Douglas Adams is the 672nd most popular writer (up from 752nd in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 614th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Writer.

Douglas Adams is most famous for his work on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Douglas Adams ranks 672 out of 7,302. Before him are Eduardo Galeano, Sugawara no Michizane, Theodore the Studite, Matilde Camus, H. L. Mencken, and Carlo Gozzi. After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lawrence Durrell, Marie de France, Maurice Blanchot, Sei Shōnagon, and Bernard Gui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Douglas Adams ranks 31. Before him are Cyril Ramaphosa, Oleg Blokhin, Zoran Đinđić, Laura Branigan, Vahid Halilhodžić, and Gary Moore. After him are Neil Peart, Bronisław Komorowski, Tomislav Nikolić, Lee Hsien Loong, John Goodman, and Isabella Rossellini. Among people deceased in 2001, Douglas Adams ranks 22. Before him are Fred Hoyle, Wilhelm Mohnke, Iannis Xenakis, Gilbert Bécaud, Alberto Korda, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Nikolay Basov, Marie José of Belgium, Clifford Shull, Robert Ludlum, Dương Văn Minh, and William Hanna.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Adams ranks 510 out of 8,785. Before him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Jim Clark (1936), Henry the Young King (1155), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), and Gary Moore (1952). After him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), William Wilberforce (1759), Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Ælla of Northumbria (800), and Archer Martin (1910).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Douglas Adams ranks 59. Before him are Daphne du Maurier (1907), Alexander Pope (1688), Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), and Ian McEwan (1948). After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Oliver Sacks (1933), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Beatrix Potter (1866), and Walter Raleigh (1554).

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