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Neil Simon

1927 - 2018

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Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Neil Simon has received more than 3,560,219 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Neil Simon is the 2,460th most popular writer (up from 2,589th in 2019), the 3,181st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,329th in 2019) and the 281st most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Neil Simon ranks 2,460 out of 5,755. Before him are Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ada Negri, Uri Orlev, John Barth, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Savitri Devi. After him are Roberto Calasso, M. Karunanidhi, Chittaranjan Das, Jim Thompson, Ryōkan, and Renée Vivien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Neil Simon ranks 136. Before him are Hiroshi Teshigahara, Al Martino, Patti Page, Paul Volcker, Gae Aulenti, and Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten. After him are Yutaka Taniyama, Vittorio Gregotti, Stanisław Kania, Martin Walser, Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, and Albert Zafy. Among people deceased in 2018, Neil Simon ranks 136. Before him are Irena Szewińska, Đỗ Mười, Per Kirkeby, Oleg Tabakov, Margit Sandemo, and Alexander Zakharchenko. After him are M. Karunanidhi, Azeglio Vicini, Vitaliy Masol, Katherine MacGregor, David Ogden Stiers, and Philip Kerr.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Neil Simon ranks 3,181 out of 18,182. Before him are DMX (1970), Abe Vigoda (1921), Elbridge Gerry (1744), Albert Ghiorso (1915), GG Allin (1956), and Gordon Mitchell (1923). After him are Paul Robeson (1898), Dick Wolf (1946), Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), Shannon Lee (1969), and Leon Russom (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Neil Simon ranks 281. Before him are Charles Berlitz (1913), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), Henry Darger (1892), Paul Goodman (1911), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860), and John Barth (1930). After him are Jim Thompson (1906), Howard Fast (1914), Richard Wright (1908), John Zerzan (1943), William Peter Blatty (1928), and Anne McCaffrey (1926).

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