1929 - 2007
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), The Boys from Brazil (1976), and Sliver (1991). Levin also wrote the play Deathtrap (1978). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ira Levin has received more than 949,002 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ira Levin is the 1,423rd most popular writer (down from 1,377th in 2019), the 1,809th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,642nd in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Ira Levin ranks 1,423 out of 5,755. Before him are Mukhtar Auezov, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Robert Browning, Siegfried Lenz, Joseph Needham, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. After him are Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Blaise de Vigenère, Léo Taxil, James Murray, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Paul Rée.
1897 - 1961
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,417
1888 - 1970
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,418
1812 - 1889
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,419
1926 - 2014
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,420
1900 - 1995
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,421
1798 - 1874
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,422
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,423
912 - 966
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,424
1523 - 1596
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 1,425
1854 - 1907
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,426
1837 - 1915
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,427
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,428
1849 - 1901
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,429
Among people born in 1929, Ira Levin ranks 111. Before him are Eva Schloss, Chespirito, Isabel Sarli, David Kelly, Lorenzo Buffon, and Robert Faurisson. After him are Fred Phelps, Heiner Müller, José Santamaría, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Vic Morrow, and André Previn. Among people deceased in 2007, Ira Levin ranks 65. Before him are Mary Douglas, Jean-Pierre Vernant, André Gorz, Lady Bird Johnson, Jean-Marie Lustiger, and Ashraf Marwan. After him are Michel Serrault, Maurice Papon, Alan MacDiarmid, Yvonne De Carlo, Rudolf Arnheim, and Kiichi Miyazawa.
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 105
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 106
1929 - 2019
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 107
1929 - 2012
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 108
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 109
1929 - 2018
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 110
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 111
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 112
1929 - 1995
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 113
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 114
1929 - 2023
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 115
1929 - 1982
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 116
1929 - 2019
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 117
1921 - 2007
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 59
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 60
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 61
1912 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 62
1926 - 2007
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 63
1944 - 2007
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 64
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 65
1928 - 2007
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 66
1910 - 2007
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 67
1927 - 2007
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 68
1922 - 2007
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 69
1904 - 2007
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 70
1919 - 2007
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 71
Among people born in United States, Ira Levin ranks 1,809 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert C. Merton (1944), Mitt Romney (1947), Ralph Macchio (1961), Saul Kripke (1940), Arthur Danto (1924), and Robert Moog (1934). After him are Stephen Sondheim (1930), Isaac Hayes (1942), Don Rosa (1951), Martin Rodbell (1925), Lucy Liu (1968), and Fred Phelps (1929).
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,803
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,804
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,805
1940 - 2022
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,806
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,807
1934 - 2005
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,808
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,809
1930 - 2021
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,810
1942 - 2008
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,811
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 1,812
1925 - 1998
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 1,813
1968 - Present
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,814
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 1,815
Among writers born in United States, Ira Levin ranks 170. Before him are Norman Mailer (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), James Patterson (1947), Thornton Wilder (1897), Martin Gardner (1914), and Ida Tarbell (1857). After him are Dorothy Parker (1893), Tom Wolfe (1930), Rick Riordan (1964), Philip José Farmer (1918), Jack Vance (1916), and William Carlos Williams (1883).
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 164
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 165
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 166
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 167
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 168
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 169
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 170
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 171
1930 - 2018
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 172
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 173
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 174
1916 - 2013
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 175
1883 - 1963
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 176