1919 - 1999
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iris Murdoch has received more than 1,042,333 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Iris Murdoch is the 751st most popular writer (down from 700th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 26th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Irish Writer.
Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher. She is most famous for her novel "The Sea, The Sea" which won the Booker Prize in 1978.
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Among writers, Iris Murdoch ranks 751 out of 5,794. Before her are Joseph Campbell, Tony Buzan, Mikael Agricola, Philippe Ariès, Alexander Blok, and Maya Angelou. After her are Raymond Carver, Wilhelm Hauff, Agathias, Antoine Galland, Ismail Gaspirali, and Antonio Machado.
1904 - 1987
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 745
1942 - 2019
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 746
1510 - 1557
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 747
1914 - 1984
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 748
1880 - 1921
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 749
1928 - 2014
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 750
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 751
1938 - 1988
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 752
1802 - 1827
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 753
536 - 582
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 754
1646 - 1715
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 755
1851 - 1914
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 756
1875 - 1939
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 757
Among people born in 1919, Iris Murdoch ranks 27. Before her are Leon Festinger, Siad Barre, Matilde Camus, Lino Ventura, Lex Barker, and Jack Palance. After her are Walter Scheel, Pierre Trudeau, Dino De Laurentiis, James Lovelock, Andreas Papandreou, and Moïse Tshombe. Among people deceased in 1999, Iris Murdoch ranks 23. Before her are Fred Trump, Willi Stoph, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe DiMaggio, Julius Nyerere, and Desmond Llewelyn. After her are Petr Shelokhonov, Akio Morita, Oliver Reed, Glenn T. Seaborg, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and Anatoliy Solovianenko.
1919 - 1989
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 21
1919 - 1995
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 22
1919 - 2012
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 23
1919 - 1987
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 24
1919 - 1973
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 25
1919 - 2006
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 26
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 27
1919 - 2016
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 28
1919 - 2000
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 29
1919 - 2010
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 30
1919 - Present
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 31
1919 - 1996
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 32
1919 - 1969
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 33
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 17
1914 - 1999
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 18
1933 - 1999
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 19
1914 - 1999
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 20
1922 - 1999
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 21
1914 - 1999
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 22
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 23
1929 - 1999
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 24
1921 - 1999
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 25
1938 - 1999
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 26
1912 - 1999
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 27
1914 - 1999
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 28
1932 - 1999
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 29
Among people born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 28 out of 460. Before her are Ernest Shackleton (1874), Columbanus (540), Katie McGrath (1983), Michael Collins (1890), Enya (1961), and Francis Beaufort (1774). After her are Lola Montez (1821), Gabriel Byrne (1950), Bono (1960), Joseph Murphy (1898), Cillian Murphy (1976), and Ethel Voynich (1864).
1874 - 1922
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 22
540 - 615
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 23
1983 - Present
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 24
1890 - 1922
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 25
1961 - Present
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 26
1774 - 1857
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 27
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 28
1821 - 1861
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 29
1950 - Present
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 30
1960 - Present
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 31
1898 - 1981
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 32
1976 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 33
1864 - 1960
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 34
Among writers born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 9. Before her are James Joyce (1882), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), and Laurence Sterne (1713). After her are Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), Saint Gall (550), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Thomas Moore (1779), and Oliver Goldsmith (1728).
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 3
1856 - 1950
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 4
1906 - 1989
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 8
1919 - 1999
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 9
1898 - 1981
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 10
1864 - 1960
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 11
550 - 645
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 12
1814 - 1873
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 13
1779 - 1852
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 14
1728 - 1774
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 15