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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 360,553 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ken Adam is the 3,719th most popular writer (down from 3,705th in 2019), the 3,558th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,369th in 2019) and the 218th most popular German Writer.

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  • 360k

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  • 49.48

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ken Adam ranks 3,719 out of 5,755Before him are Xiao Hong, Alaa Al Aswany, Francisco Coloane, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Hugh Benson, and Lope de Rueda. After him are Henry Adams, Ana Maria Machado, Sue Grafton, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Buton Rinchen Drub.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ken Adam ranks 233Before him are Bengt Danielsson, Isabella Karle, Imre Kovács, John Agar, Simin Daneshvar, and Jeanne Demessieux. After him are Jack Kramer, Lis Hartel, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Rodney Dangerfield, Leo Penn, and Rinaldo Martino. Among people deceased in 2016, Ken Adam ranks 241Before him are Jayalalithaa, Harald Grønningen, Zubaida Tharwat, Tom Hayden, Zoltán Kocsis, and Ioannis Grivas. After him are Pierre Étaix, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Lupita Tovar, Manfred Krug, Jimmy Bain, and Turgay Şeren.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ken Adam ranks 3,558 out of 6,142Before him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Werner Klemperer (1920), Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906), and Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (1630). After him are Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1627), Jürgen Croy (1946), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Gottfried Fuchs (1889), André Schürrle (1990), and Botho Strauß (1944).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ken Adam ranks 218Before him are Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Justus Jonas (1493), Otto Ludwig (1813), Günter Eich (1907), and Picander (1700). After him are Botho Strauß (1944), Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), James Krüss (1926), Karoline von Günderrode (1780), Oskar Maria Graf (1894), and Iwan Bloch (1872).