1931 - 2023
Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball (1980), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), Wicked Women (1995) and The Bulgari Connection (2000), but was most well-known as the writer of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) which was televised by the BBC in 1986. Married three times and with four children, Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fay Weldon has received more than 443,955 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fay Weldon is the 4,761st most popular writer (down from 4,429th in 2019), the 3,616th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,404th in 2019) and the 411th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Fay Weldon ranks 4,761 out of 5,755. Before her are John Holt, Sara Paretsky, Károly Kisfaludy, Hanif Kureishi, John Gardner, and Urs Widmer. After her are Álvaro Cunqueiro, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Warren Farrell, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and Vladimir Makanin.
1923 - 1985
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 4,755
1947 - Present
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 4,756
1788 - 1830
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 4,757
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 4,758
1926 - 2007
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 4,759
1938 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 4,760
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 4,761
1911 - 1981
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 4,762
1918 - 1988
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 4,763
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,764
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,765
1743 - 1825
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,766
1937 - 2017
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,767
Among people born in 1931, Fay Weldon ranks 368. Before her are André Noyelle, Nat Adderley, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Dan Rather, Madeleine Berthod, and Peter Armbruster. After her are Ferenc Szojka, Irwin Winkler, Kiki Dimoula, Skeeter Davis, Olja Ivanjicki, and Roger Planchon. Among people deceased in 2023, Fay Weldon ranks 277. Before her are John Pilger, Jorge Edwards, Alberto Mario González, Wilferd Madelung, Abraham Lempel, and Michael Lerner. After her are Lasse Berghagen, Vera T. Sós, Mikio Aoki, John Zizioulas, Randy Meisner, and Waldemar Victorino.
1931 - 2003
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 362
1931 - 2000
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 363
1931 - 2013
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 364
1931 - Present
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 365
1931 - Present
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 366
1931 - Present
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 367
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 368
1931 - 2011
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 369
1931 - Present
HPI: 45.96
Rank: 370
1931 - 2020
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 371
1931 - 2004
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 372
1931 - 2009
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 373
1931 - 2009
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 374
1939 - 2023
HPI: 46.24
Rank: 271
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 272
1941 - 2023
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 273
1930 - 2023
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 274
1936 - 2023
HPI: 46.18
Rank: 275
1941 - 2023
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 276
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 277
1945 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 278
1930 - 2023
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 279
1934 - 2023
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 280
1931 - 2023
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 281
1946 - 2023
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 282
1952 - 2023
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 283
Among people born in United Kingdom, Fay Weldon ranks 3,616 out of 7,765. Before her are Mary Ure (1933), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Ewen Bremner (1972), John Gardner (1926), Thomas Bell (1792), and Havergal Brian (1876). After her are Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), John Gerard (1545), and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743).
1933 - 1975
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 3,610
1925 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 3,611
1972 - Present
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 3,612
1926 - 2007
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 3,613
1792 - 1880
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 3,614
1876 - 1972
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 3,615
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 3,616
1988 - Present
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 3,617
1845 - 1927
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 3,618
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 3,619
1757 - 1833
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 3,620
1545 - 1612
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 3,621
1743 - 1825
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 3,622
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Fay Weldon ranks 411. Before her are Aneirin (525), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Richard Pococke (1704), Jonathan Coe (1961), Hanif Kureishi (1954), and John Gardner (1926). After her are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), James Thomson (1700), Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), and Charles Williams (1886).
525 - 600
HPI: 46.18
Rank: 405
955 - 1020
HPI: 46.16
Rank: 406
1704 - 1765
HPI: 46.16
Rank: 407
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 408
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 409
1926 - 2007
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 410
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 411
1743 - 1825
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 412
1700 - 1748
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 413
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 414
1844 - 1929
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 415
1805 - 1882
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 416
1886 - 1945
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 417