1965 - Today
Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist. He has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages.Eleven of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and The Notebook, with a cumulative domestic box office totaling more than $574M.Sparks lives in North Carolina, where he contributes to a variety of local and national charities. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Sparks has received more than 4,283,708 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Nicholas Sparks is the 1,476th most popular writer (down from 1,459th in 2019), the 1,807th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,688th in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Nicholas Sparks ranks 1,476 out of 5,794. Before him are Jacopo Sannazaro, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Don Juan Manuel, Tomi Ungerer, Károly Kerényi, and Roland Topor. After him are Philip José Farmer, Miklós Zrínyi, Robert Desnos, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Tonino Guerra, and Silvina Ocampo.
1458 - 1530
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 1,470
1826 - 1889
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 1,471
1282 - 1348
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 1,472
1931 - 2019
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 1,473
1897 - 1973
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 1,474
1938 - 1997
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 1,475
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 1,476
1918 - 2009
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 1,477
1620 - 1664
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 1,478
1900 - 1945
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 1,479
1873 - 1936
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 1,480
1920 - 2012
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 1,481
1903 - 1993
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 1,482
Among people born in 1965, Nicholas Sparks ranks 30. Before him are José Luis Chilavert, Aamir Khan, Hans-Dieter Flick, Khaled Hosseini, Sam Mendes, and Shamil Basayev. After him are Dragan Stojković, Diane Lane, Michael Bay, Viola Davis, Connie Nielsen, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 24
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 25
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 26
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 27
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 28
1965 - 2006
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 29
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 30
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 31
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 32
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 33
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 34
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 35
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 36
Among people born in United States, Nicholas Sparks ranks 1,807 out of 15,968. Before him are Alfred G. Gilman (1941), Dan Inosanto (1936), Andie MacDowell (1958), Billy Crystal (1948), Martha Stewart (1941), and Kelly Lynch (1959). After him are DJ Khaled (1975), Jim Garrison (1921), Kanye West (1977), Christina Aguilera (1980), Philip José Farmer (1918), and Leonard Bloomfield (1887).
1941 - 2015
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 1,801
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 1,802
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 1,803
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 1,804
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 1,805
1959 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 1,806
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 1,807
1975 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 1,808
1921 - 1992
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 1,809
1977 - Present
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 1,810
1980 - Present
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 1,811
1918 - 2009
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 1,812
1887 - 1949
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 1,813
Among writers born in United States, Nicholas Sparks ranks 170. Before him are Henry Steel Olcott (1832), Edward Albee (1928), Wayne Dyer (1940), Martin Gardner (1914), Jim Thompson (1906), and Bob Woodward (1943). After him are Philip José Farmer (1918), Jane Jacobs (1916), Samuel R. Delany (1942), Robert Wilson (1941), Patricia Cornwell (1956), and Donald E. Westlake (1933).
1832 - 1907
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 164
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 165
1940 - 2015
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 166
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 167
1906 - 1977
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 168
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 169
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 170
1918 - 2009
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 171
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 172
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 173
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 174
1956 - Present
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 175
1933 - 2008
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 176