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John Osborne

1929 - 1994

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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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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Osborne ranks 3,688 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Osborne ranks 267Before 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 182Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Osborne ranks 2,706 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Osborne ranks 315Before 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).