WRITER

John Mortimer

1923 - 2009

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Sir John Clifford Mortimer (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Mortimer has received more than 1,171,712 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Mortimer is the 6,837th most popular writer (down from 6,138th in 2019), the 6,373rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,793rd in 2019) and the 714th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rumpole of the Bailey
Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, English, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character)
1978
Trials of Rumpole
English Detective and mystery stories, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character), Fiction
1979
Rumpole
Short stories, English, English Short stories, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character)
1980
Rumpole's Return
Rumpole, horace (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologies, Fiction, legal
1982
Rumpole's Last Case
Fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character)
1987
Rumpole's Return
Legal stories, English Detective and mystery stories, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character)
1940

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Mortimer ranks 6,837 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Enright, Jan van Steenbergen, Hamid Mir, Seth Meyers, Elaine Showalter, and Hugh MacDiarmid. After him are Robert C. Cooper, Michael Arndt, Douglas Murray, Javier Sicilia, Ken Liu, and Mariam Petrosyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, John Mortimer ranks 487. Before him are Ted Knight, Gene Reynolds, Norman Kirk, Dora Bryan, Kenny Rollins, and Adele Mara. After him are Anthony Bevilacqua, James Abdnor, Ray Lumpp, Tomás Ó Fiaich, Pamela Britton, and Eddie Turnbull. Among people deceased in 2009, John Mortimer ranks 411. Before him are George Perle, Anastasia Baburova, Ernő Kolczonay, Leo Rwabwogo, Alastair McCorquodale, and Valeri Broshin. After him are Giovanni Parisi, Shakti Samanta, Jang Jin-young, Gale Storm, Antonio de Nigris, and Jane Bryan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Mortimer ranks 6,373 out of 8,785. Before him are Craig Brown (1940), Thomas Heatherwick (1970), Robert James-Collier (1976), Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852), Hugh MacDiarmid (1892), and Mark Lewis Jones (1964). After him are Alex Winter (1965), Justin Chancellor (1971), Douglas Murray (1979), Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867), Tyias Browning (1994), and Don Letts (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Mortimer ranks 714. Before him are Russell T Davies (1963), Noel Streatfeild (1895), Sebastian Faulks (1953), Louis MacNeice (1907), Robert Bridges (1844), and Hugh MacDiarmid (1892). After him are Douglas Murray (1979), Laurie Lee (1914), Christopher Smart (1722), Matt Haig (1975), George Monbiot (1963), and Dora Marsden (1882).

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