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Henry Lincoln

1930 - 2022

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Henry Soskin (12 February 1930 – 23 February 2022), better known as Henry Lincoln, was a British author, television presenter, scriptwriter, and actor. He co-wrote three Doctor Who multi-part serials in the 1960s, and — starting in the 1970s — inspired three Chronicle BBC Two documentaries on the alleged mysteries surrounding the French village of Rennes-le-Château (on which he was writer and presenter) — and, from the 1980s, co-authored and authored a series of books of which The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was the most popular, becoming the inspiration for Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Lincoln has received more than 149,767 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henry Lincoln is the 4,818th most popular writer (down from 4,551st in 2019), the 3,666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,531st in 2019) and the 418th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Lincoln ranks 4,818 out of 5,755. Before him are Archibald MacLeish, Mari Jungstedt, Jack Finney, Stratis Myrivilis, Rosa Mayreder, and J. Bernlef. After him are Semir Osmanagić, Ernest Lehman, Robert Lowell, Aminata Sow Fall, Manuel Curros Enríquez, and Enzo Biagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Henry Lincoln ranks 388. Before him are Françoise Mallet-Joris, Alan Shugart, Leonid Abalkin, Vera T. Sós, Innes Ireland, and Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev. After him are Polly Bergen, Edoardo Sanguineti, John Keel, Adolf Born, Elmira Minita Gordon, and Jacques Parizeau. Among people deceased in 2022, Henry Lincoln ranks 307. Before him are David Ray Griffin, Bernd Bransch, Ken Starr, Regimantas Adomaitis, Franco Frattini, and Rafael Chimishkyan. After him are Martin Bangemann, Leslie Phillips, Harrison Birtwistle, Víctor Benítez, Antonio Martino, and Lodewijk van den Berg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Lincoln ranks 3,666 out of 7,765. Before him are Alan Brown (1919), Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938), Gordon Haskell (1946), David Arnold (1962), Ray Reardon (1932), and Patrick Malahide (1945). After him are James Sowerby (1757), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Emerald Fennell (1985), Dave Gibbons (1949), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), and Simone Perrotta (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Henry Lincoln ranks 418. Before him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), James Thomson (1700), Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), and Charles Williams (1886). After him are George Crabbe (1754), Peter Ackroyd (1949), Margery Kempe (1373), Roger Hargreaves (1935), Kate Atkinson (1951), and Michael Grant (1914).

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