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Ken Adam

1921 - 2016

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Sir Kenneth Adam (born Klaus Hugo George Fritz Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German-British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove and Salon Kitty. Adam won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Adam has received more than 379,845 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Adam is the 4,117th most popular writer (down from 3,706th in 2019), the 4,092nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,550th in 2019) and the 252nd most popular German Writer.

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  • 380k

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  • 49.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ken Adam ranks 4,117 out of 7,302. Before him are Johann Georg von Hahn, Lisa Tetzner, Ngaio Marsh, Ō no Yasumaro, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, and Cemal Süreya. After him are Maximilian Harden, Peter Cheyney, Musa Anter, Robert Rozhdestvensky, José Enrique Rodó, and Gregory David Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ken Adam ranks 245. Before him are Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Jack Kramer, Tore Sjöstrand, Mustafa Ben Halim, Rodney Dangerfield, and Jamie Uys. After him are Maria Gorokhovskaya, Yevgeniya Rudneva, Betty Hutton, Manny Ayulo, Jack Clayton, and Ely. Among people deceased in 2016, Ken Adam ranks 268. Before him are Anita Brookner, Pedro de Felipe, Raoul Coutard, Afeni Shakur, Giovanni Coppa, and László Sárosi. After him are Brigitte Hamann, Jan Němec, Susana Duijm, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Marisol Escobar, and Ofelya Hambardzumyan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ken Adam ranks 4,092 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Lisa Tetzner (1894), Uschi Glas (1944), Kurt Blome (1894), Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776), and Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680). After him are Ludwig Diels (1874), Maximilian Harden (1861), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Walter Momper (1945), Irmgard Möller (1947), and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ken Adam ranks 252. Before him are James Krüss (1926), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), Emanuel Geibel (1815), Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Lisa Tetzner (1894), and Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680). After him are Maximilian Harden (1861), Brigitte Hamann (1940), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Rist (1607), Carl Sternheim (1878), and Bel Kaufman (1911).

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