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Frank Herbert

1920 - 1986

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Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Herbert has received more than 6,286,871 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Frank Herbert is the 432nd most popular writer (down from 169th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from United States (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Writer.

Frank Herbert is most famous for his science fiction novel Dune.

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  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frank Herbert ranks 432 out of 7,302. Before him are Nadine Gordimer, Vladimir Vysotsky, Philip Roth, William of Rubruck, Phaedrus, and Andrzej Sapkowski. After him are Hector Malot, Al-Maʿarri, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis Aragon, and André Maurois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Frank Herbert ranks 16. Before him are Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Paul Celan, Mario Puzo, Owen Chamberlain, Melina Mercouri, and Gianni Rodari. After him are Amália Rodrigues, Boris Vian, Traudl Junge, Éric Rohmer, Richard von Weizsäcker, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Among people deceased in 1986, Frank Herbert ranks 14. Before him are Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Beuys, Cliff Burton, Jean Genet, and Harold Macmillan. After him are Urho Kekkonen, Henry Moore, Celâl Bayar, Jaroslav Seifert, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Herbert ranks 408 out of 20,380. Before him are James Hong (1929), Man Ray (1890), Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), Sarah Vaughan (1924), Philip Roth (1933), and Billie Holiday (1915). After him are Prince (1958), Jack Ruby (1911), Paul Tibbets (1915), Willis Carrier (1876), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and Jon Brower Minnoch (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Frank Herbert ranks 40. Before him are O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), and Philip Roth (1933). After him are Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Susan Sontag (1933), Jack Kerouac (1922), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Patricia Highsmith (1921), and George R. R. Martin (1948).

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