1948 - Today
Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian McEwan has received more than 2,766,900 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Ian McEwan is the 828th most popular writer (down from 779th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 614th in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Writer.
Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Atonement, and Saturday.
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Among writers, Ian McEwan ranks 828 out of 5,755. Before him are Viktor Shklovsky, Laura de Noves, Frank Wedekind, Ban Gu, Ibn al-Jawzi, and Madame Roland. After him are Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Edgar Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Sam Shepard, and Matilde Camus.
1893 - 1984
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 822
1310 - 1348
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 823
1864 - 1918
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 824
32 - 92
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 825
1116 - 1200
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 826
1754 - 1793
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 827
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 828
1724 - 1803
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 829
1813 - 1851
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 830
1875 - 1932
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 831
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 832
1943 - 2017
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 833
1919 - 2012
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 834
Among people born in 1948, Ian McEwan ranks 50. Before him are Tony Iommi, Grace Jones, Elizabeth Blackburn, Rudolf Schenker, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Carl Weathers. After him are Brian Eno, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Ian Paice, Powers Boothe, Patrizia Reggiani, and Edmund Kemper.
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 44
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 45
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 46
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 47
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 48
1948 - 2024
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 49
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 50
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 51
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.12
Rank: 52
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 53
1948 - 2017
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 54
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 55
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 56
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian McEwan ranks 678 out of 7,765. Before him are Stirling Moss (1929), Thomas Chippendale (1718), J. L. Austin (1911), Amélie of Orléans (1865), John Harrison (1693), and Jude Law (1972). After him are Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473), Chris Slade (1946), Naomi Watts (1968), Edgar Wallace (1875), and Martin Ryle (1918).
1929 - 2020
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 672
1718 - 1779
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 673
1911 - 1960
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 674
1865 - 1951
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 675
1693 - 1776
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 676
1972 - Present
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 677
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 678
1796 - 1817
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 679
1473 - 1484
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 680
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 681
1968 - Present
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 682
1875 - 1932
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 683
1918 - 1984
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 684
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Ian McEwan ranks 80. Before him are Julian Barnes (1946), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Muriel Spark (1918), Jane Hawking (1944), and Philip Pullman (1946). After him are Edgar Wallace (1875), Eleanor Marx (1855), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James May (1963), H. Rider Haggard (1856), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809).
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 74
1860 - 1946
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 75
1924 - 2020
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 76
1918 - 2006
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 77
1944 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 78
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 79
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 80
1875 - 1932
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 81
1855 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 82
1959 - Present
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 83
1963 - Present
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 84
1856 - 1925
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 85
1809 - 1892
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 86