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Nigella Lawson

1960 - Today

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Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer and television cook. After graduating from Oxford, Lawson worked as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist. In 1998, her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Nigella Lawson is the 6,210th most popular writer (down from 5,771st in 2024), the 5,330th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,513th in 2019) and the 584th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Nigella Lawson ranks 6,210 out of 7,302. Before her are Pentti Haanpää, Peter Orlovsky, Julia Donaldson, Volodymyr Vakulenko, Joan D. Vinge, and Christina Hoff Sommers. After her are Sam Lake, Kristina Lugn, Liu Xia, Ferenc Juhász, John Patrick Shanley, and Christopher Fry.

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Among people born in 1960, Nigella Lawson ranks 500. Before her are Masoumeh Ebtekar, Azim Isabekov, Tarako, Chira Apostol, Igor Nikulin, and Takashi Mizunuma. After her are Tomas Jonsson, Maria Schneider, Danny John-Jules, Elvira Dones, Comandanta Ramona, and Igor Presnyakov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nigella Lawson ranks 5,332 out of 8,785. Before her are Ann Todd (1907), John James (1914), Asa Butterfield (1997), Tommy Flowers (1905), Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), and Jan Morris (1926). After her are Howard Marks (1945), Janet Simpson (1944), Adebayo Akinfenwa (1982), Sheila Hancock (1933), Fiona May (1969), and Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Nigella Lawson ranks 584. Before her are Dorothy Wordsworth (1771), Susan Cooper (1935), Joyce Cary (1888), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Thomas Traherne (1636), and Julia Donaldson (1948). After her are Christopher Fry (1907), Piers Anthony (1934), Howard Jacobson (1942), Caroline Norton (1808), William Dunbar (1460), and Anne Fine (1947).

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