WRITER

Ian Fleming

1908 - 1964

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Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Fleming has received more than 11,315,731 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Ian Fleming is the 362nd most popular writer (down from 196th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 150th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Writer.

Ian Fleming is most famous for his James Bond series of books.

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  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1964
From Russia, With Love
1957
Casino Royale
1953
Dr. No
1958

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ian Fleming ranks 362 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikhail Lermontov, Simonides of Ceos, James Fenimore Cooper, Jorge Amado, Margaret Mitchell, and Christine de Pizan. After him are Mahmoud Darwish, Mario Puzo, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Paul Auster, Jo Nesbø, and Alphonse de Lamartine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Ian Fleming ranks 19. Before him are Lev Landau, Olivier Messiaen, John Bardeen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Geli Raubal, and Simon Wiesenthal. After him are Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mika Waltari, Anna Magnani, David Oistrakh, Nelson Rockefeller, and Hannes Alfvén. Among people deceased in 1964, Ian Fleming ranks 9. Before him are Herbert Hoover, Paul of Greece, Alma Mahler, Victor Francis Hess, Norbert Wiener, and Leo Szilard. After him are Rachel Carson, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, James Franck, Vasily Grossman, Gerhard Domagk, and Palmiro Togliatti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Fleming ranks 252 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Taylor (1949), James II of England (1633), Alan Parker (1944), Brian Jones (1942), and David Lloyd George (1863). After him are Edmond Halley (1656), Lady Jane Grey (1537), Arthur Evans (1851), Peter Ustinov (1921), Gary Oldman (1958), and Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Ian Fleming ranks 31. Before him are William Golding (1911), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), C. S. Lewis (1898), William Wordsworth (1770), and Ken Follett (1949). After him are Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), John Keats (1795), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), and G. K. Chesterton (1874).

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