WRITER

Graham Hancock

1950 - Today

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Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific ideas about ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. Hancock proposes that an advanced civilization with spiritual technology existed during the last Ice Age until it was destroyed following comet impacts around 12,900 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas. He speculates that survivors of this cataclysm passed on their knowledge to primitive hunter-gatherers around the world, giving rise to all the earliest known civilizations (such as ancient Egypt, Sumeria, and Mesoamerica). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Graham Hancock has received more than 4,333,851 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Graham Hancock is the 3,573rd most popular writer (up from 4,162nd in 2019), the 2,562nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,061st in 2019) and the 292nd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Graham Hancock ranks 3,573 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Garnier, Liza Marklund, Safvet-beg Bašagić, Robert W. Chambers, Sergio Ramírez, and Zsigmond Móricz. After him are Krišjānis Barons, Richard Curtis, Emma Lazarus, Louis Pergaud, Antonio Palomino, and Ćamil Sijarić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Graham Hancock ranks 235. Before him are Li Yuanchao, Jon Polito, Francis Collins, Omer Beriziky, Thom Barry, and Tommy Aldridge. After him are Josiane Balasko, Lino Červar, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Rick Perry, Kenny Ortega, and Marián Masný.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Graham Hancock ranks 2,562 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Lee (1947), Edwin Landseer (1802), Bryan Johnson (1926), Freddie Highmore (1992), Robert Liston (1794), and Æthelfrith (600). After him are Johnny Clegg (1953), Ben Miller (1966), George Shearing (1919), Banastre Tarleton (1754), Jonathan Edwards (1966), and T. H. Marshall (1893).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Graham Hancock ranks 292. Before him are William Cowper (1731), Henri Alleg (1921), Edwin Arnold (1832), Leslie Stephen (1832), Edith Durham (1863), and George Gissing (1857). After him are I. A. Richards (1893), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), William Robertson Smith (1846), Diana Mosley (1910), and Gertrude Jekyll (1843).

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