1929 - 1994
John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. Born in London, he briefly worked as a journalist before starting out in theatre as a stage manager and actor. He lived in poverty for several years before his third produced play, Look Back in Anger (1956), brought him national fame.Based on his volatile relationship with his first wife, Pamela Lane, it marked him as part of the kitchen sink realism movement in post-WWII Britain, which made use of social realism and domestic settings to address disillusionment with British society in the waning years of the Empire. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Osborne has received more than 1,172,383 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. John Osborne is the 3,688th most popular writer (down from 2,921st in 2019), the 2,706th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,195th in 2019) and the 315th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, John Osborne ranks 3,688 out of 5,755. Before him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Konstantin Fedin, Tadeusz Konwicki, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Arthur Ransome, and Johann Christian Günther. After him are Theodore Abu Qurrah, Otto Ludwig, Günter Eich, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Alexander Kazbegi, and Simin Daneshvar.
1802 - 1872
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 3,682
1892 - 1977
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 3,683
1926 - 2015
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 3,684
1936 - 2013
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 3,685
1884 - 1967
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 3,686
1695 - 1723
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 3,687
1929 - 1994
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 3,688
750 - 820
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 3,689
1813 - 1865
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,690
1907 - 1972
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,691
1950 - Present
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,692
1848 - 1893
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,693
1921 - 2012
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,694
Among people born in 1929, John Osborne ranks 267. Before him are Bob Hawke, John Turner, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, József Tóth, Barry Harris, and Carlo Ubbiali. After him are Vija Artmane, Karin Lindberg, Harry Frankfurt, Jimmy Cobb, Henri Pousseur, and Francesco Alberoni. Among people deceased in 1994, John Osborne ranks 182. Before him are Ralph Ellison, Jerry Rubin, Igor Chislenko, Dmitri Ivanenko, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, and Givi Chokheli. After him are Luis Vargas Peña, Albert Shesternyov, Harry Saltzman, Arnold Badjou, Kurt Aland, and Robert Rozhdestvensky.
1929 - 2019
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 261
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 262
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 263
1929 - 2017
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 264
1929 - 2021
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 265
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.59
Rank: 266
1929 - 1994
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 267
1929 - 2008
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 268
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 269
1929 - 2023
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 270
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 271
1929 - 2009
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 272
1929 - 2023
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 273
1914 - 1994
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 176
1938 - 1994
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 177
1939 - 1994
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 178
1904 - 1994
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 179
1908 - 1994
HPI: 49.68
Rank: 180
1937 - 1994
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 181
1929 - 1994
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 182
1905 - 1994
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 183
1941 - 1994
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 184
1915 - 1994
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 185
1909 - 1994
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 186
1915 - 1994
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 187
1932 - 1994
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 188
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Osborne ranks 2,706 out of 7,765. Before him are Edward Fortunatus (1565), Thandie Newton (1972), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), Arthur Ransome (1884), Elaine Paige (1948), and Patrick Manson (1844). After him are Mick Hucknall (1960), Dan Stevens (1982), Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868), John Christie (1899), and Edmund Campion (1540).
1565 - 1600
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 2,700
1972 - Present
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 2,701
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 2,702
1884 - 1967
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 2,703
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 2,704
1844 - 1922
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 2,705
1929 - 1994
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 2,706
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 2,707
1982 - Present
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 2,708
1400 - 1460
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 2,709
1868 - 1927
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 2,710
1899 - 1953
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 2,711
1540 - 1581
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 2,712
Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Osborne ranks 315. Before him are Radclyffe Hall (1880), Hilary Mantel (1952), Georgette Heyer (1902), Robert Fisk (1946), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), and Arthur Ransome (1884). After him are Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Robert Hugh Benson (1871), Beryl Markham (1902), Arthur Waley (1889), Leslie Stephen (1832), and Lydia Becker (1827).
1880 - 1943
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 309
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 310
1902 - 1974
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 311
1946 - 2020
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 312
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 313
1884 - 1967
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 314
1929 - 1994
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 315
1843 - 1901
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 316
1871 - 1914
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 317
1902 - 1986
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 318
1889 - 1966
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 319
1832 - 1904
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 320
1827 - 1890
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 321