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 (1954), 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 1,784,345 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Iris Murdoch is the 1,019th most popular writer (down from 751st in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 28th in 2019) and the 11th 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 1,019 out of 5,755. Before her are Dobrica Ćosić, Tibor Sekelj, Harry Mulisch, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Veronica Franco, and James Hadley Chase. After her are Bar Hebraeus, Julien Green, Derek Walcott, Bernhard Schlink, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, and Ernst Toller.
1921 - 2014
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 1,013
1912 - 1988
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 1,014
1927 - 2010
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 1,015
110 BC - 32 BC
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 1,016
1546 - 1591
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 1,017
1906 - 1985
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 1,018
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 1,019
1226 - 1286
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 1,020
1900 - 1998
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 1,021
1930 - 2017
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 1,022
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 1,023
1586 - 1654
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 1,024
1893 - 1939
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 1,025
Among people born in 1919, Iris Murdoch ranks 43. Before her are Daniel Bell, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Jackie Robinson, Hermine Braunsteiner, Pete Seeger, and Oleg Penkovsky. After her are César Manrique, Chavela Vargas, James Lovelock, Georges Duby, Lauri Törni, and Martin Balsam. Among people deceased in 1999, Iris Murdoch ranks 35. Before her are Julius Nyerere, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Mary Ainsworth, Hélder Câmara, Hermine Braunsteiner, and Fred Trump. After her are Gerhard Herzberg, Benjamin Bloom, Henry Way Kendall, Henri, Count of Paris, Nathalie Sarraute, and Oliver Reed.
1919 - 2011
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 37
1919 - 1983
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 38
1919 - 1972
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 39
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 40
1919 - 2014
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 41
1919 - 1963
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 42
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 43
1919 - 1992
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 44
1919 - 2012
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 45
1919 - 2022
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 46
1919 - 1996
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 47
1919 - 1965
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 48
1919 - 1996
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 49
1922 - 1999
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 29
1932 - 1999
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 30
1913 - 1999
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 31
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 32
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 33
1905 - 1999
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 34
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 35
1904 - 1999
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 36
1913 - 1999
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 37
1926 - 1999
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 38
1908 - 1999
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 39
1900 - 1999
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 40
1938 - 1999
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 41
Among people born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 40 out of 501. Before her are Bob Geldof (1951), Brendan (484), Rory Gallagher (1948), Edmund the Martyr (841), Saint Gall (550), and Eileen Gray (1878). After her are Dolores O'Riordan (1971), Bertie Ahern (1951), Columba (521), Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Brendan Gleeson (1955), and Richard Cantillon (1680).
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 34
484 - 578
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 35
1948 - 1995
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 36
841 - 869
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 37
550 - 645
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 38
1878 - 1976
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 39
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 40
1971 - 2018
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 41
1951 - Present
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 42
521 - 597
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 43
836 - 877
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 44
1955 - Present
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 45
1680 - 1734
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 46
Among writers born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 11. Before her are Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), and Saint Gall (550). After her are Ethel Voynich (1864), Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Charles Maturin (1780), and Oliver Goldsmith (1728).
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 8
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 9
550 - 645
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 10
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 11
1864 - 1960
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 12
1779 - 1852
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 13
1932 - 1981
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 14
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 15
1780 - 1824
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 16
1728 - 1774
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 17