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Katharine Gun

1974 - Today

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Katharine Teresa Gun (née Harwood; born 1974) is a British linguist who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katharine Gun has received more than 2,848,489 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Katharine Gun is the 6,540th most popular writer (down from 6,356th in 2019), the 5,832nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 79th in 2019) and the 669th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Katharine Guns by language

Over the past year Katharine Gun has had the most page views in the with 249,926 views, followed by French (59,911), and German (29,208). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (837.72%), Catalan (109.83%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (52.12%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Katharine Gun ranks 6,540 out of 7,302. Before her are Dorothy E. Smith, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Somaly Mam, Eric Linklater, Didier Van Cauwelaert, and Dimitris Lyacos. After her are Alice Hoffman, Geetanjali Shree, Bessie Head, E. Pauline Johnson, Dinah Craik, and Nele Neuhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Katharine Gun ranks 369. Before her are Sebastián Lelio, Diego Klimowicz, Hámilton Ricard, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Tayfun Korkut, and Sofia Polgár. After her are Tetiana Ostashchenko, Alexandre Lopes, Tomáš Řepka, Mattias Jonson, Keren Ann, and Alessandro Birindelli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Katharine Gun ranks 5,832 out of 8,785. Before her are Gillian Gilbert (1961), David Herd (1934), John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1847), John Riseley-Prichard (1924), George Newnes (1851), and Ken Hughes (1922). After her are Walter Rutherford (1857), Kevin Macdonald (1967), William Hart (1823), John Bradley (1988), Paul Rhys (1963), and Nigel Olsson (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Katharine Gun ranks 669. Before her are John Gribbin (1946), Elizabeth Inchbald (1753), Richard Lovelace (1617), Jeff Noon (1957), Dorothy E. Smith (1926), and Eric Linklater (1899). After her are Dinah Craik (1826), Pippa Middleton (1983), William Wycherley (1640), Cressida Cowell (1966), Irving Finkel (1951), and Mo Hayder (1962).

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