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Leslie Charteris

1907 - 1993

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Leslie Charteris (; born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin; 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Charteris has received more than 482,581 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Leslie Charteris is the 5,077th most popular writer (down from 4,675th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Singapore (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Singaporean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leslie Charteris ranks 5,077 out of 7,302. Before him are Tanith Lee, Wyndham Lewis, Hermann Kant, František Čelakovský, Mark Dvoretsky, and Ghazaros Aghayan. After him are Marin Preda, Olive Schreiner, Júlia Szendrey, Jacques Chessex, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, and Amitav Ghosh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Leslie Charteris ranks 286. Before him are Alain Daniélou, Dionisio Mejía, Lotfia Elnadi, Hagigat Rzayeva, Henk Badings, and Alfred Schmitt. After him are Marie Jahoda, Luiz Gervazoni, Ann Todd, Alfredo Devincenzi, Maurice Cloche, and Jean Van Houtte. Among people deceased in 1993, Leslie Charteris ranks 207. Before him are André Pilette, Mario Cecchi Gori, Gustav Ernesaks, Joe Kelly, Akio Kaminaga, and Natália Correia. After him are Edwin Vásquez, Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Ann Todd, Edith Farkas, Axel von dem Bussche, and Lester del Rey.

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In Singapore

Among people born in Singapore, Leslie Charteris ranks 17 out of 42. Before him are Tharman Shanmugaratnam (1957), Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (1952), Ho Ching (1953), Julia Nickson (1958), Benjamin Sheares (1907), and Ong Teng Cheong (1936). After him are Terry Butcher (1958), Edward Craven Walker (1918), Abu Bakar of Johor (1833), Fann Wong (1971), Annabel Chong (1972), and Jackson Rathbone (1984).

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Among WRITERS In Singapore

Among writers born in Singapore, Leslie Charteris ranks 1. After him are Shamsul Maidin (1966).

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