1933 - Today
Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Frayn has received more than 508,668 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Michael Frayn is the 5,124th most popular writer (down from 4,398th in 2019), the 4,017th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,373rd in 2019) and the 452nd most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Michael Frayn ranks 5,124 out of 5,755. Before him are Arnulf Øverland, Memnon of Heraclea, Frank O'Hara, Mirdza Ķempe, Georgy Ivanov, and Margaret Mahy. After him are Þórbergur Þórðarson, John Esposito, Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Nathan Zach, F. Sionil José, and Gevorg Emin.
1889 - 1968
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 5,118
HPI: 44.67
Rank: 5,119
1926 - 1966
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 5,120
1907 - 1974
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 5,121
1894 - 1958
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 5,122
1936 - 2012
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 5,123
1933 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 5,124
1888 - 1974
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 5,125
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 5,126
1934 - Present
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 5,127
1930 - 2020
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 5,128
1924 - 2022
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 5,129
1919 - 1998
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 5,130
Among people born in 1933, Michael Frayn ranks 365. Before him are Robert Goulet, Tim Conway, Judah Folkman, Pedro Cubilla, Severino Poletto, and Johnny Unitas. After him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Valentina Rastvorova, Neale Fraser, Scotty Bowman, Peter Arundell, and Mike Larrabee.
1933 - 2007
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 359
1933 - 2019
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 360
1933 - 2008
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 361
1933 - 2007
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 362
1933 - 2022
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 363
1933 - 2002
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 364
1933 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 365
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 366
1933 - 2018
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 367
1933 - Present
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 368
1933 - Present
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 369
1933 - 2009
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 370
1933 - 2003
HPI: 44.48
Rank: 371
Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Frayn ranks 4,017 out of 7,765. Before him are Mary Everest Boole (1832), John Loder (1898), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Carole Shelley (1939), Theo Walcott (1989), and Juliet Mills (1941). After him are Mick Rock (1948), William Hopkins (1793), David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905), Scott Speedman (1975), H. B. Warner (1876), and Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880).
1832 - 1916
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 4,011
1898 - 1988
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 4,012
1910 - 1999
HPI: 44.67
Rank: 4,013
1939 - 2018
HPI: 44.67
Rank: 4,014
1989 - Present
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 4,015
1941 - Present
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 4,016
1933 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 4,017
1948 - 2021
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 4,018
1793 - 1866
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 4,019
1905 - 1981
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 4,020
1975 - Present
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 4,021
1876 - 1958
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 4,022
1880 - 1959
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 4,023
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Michael Frayn ranks 452. Before him are Susanna Clarke (1959), Barbara Pym (1913), Richard Llewellyn (1906), Richard K. Morgan (1965), Susan Blackmore (1951), and Jeanette Winterson (1959). After him are Alan Woods (1944), Izaak Walton (1593), Frederick Rolfe (1860), Bruno Heller (1960), Roger Ascham (1515), and Gilbert Adair (1944).
1959 - Present
HPI: 44.82
Rank: 446
1913 - 1980
HPI: 44.80
Rank: 447
1906 - 1983
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 448
1965 - Present
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 449
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.70
Rank: 450
1959 - Present
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 451
1933 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 452
1944 - Present
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 453
1593 - 1683
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 454
1860 - 1913
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 455
1960 - Present
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 456
1515 - 1568
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 457
1944 - 2011
HPI: 44.36
Rank: 458