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Norman Smith

1923 - 2008

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Norman Smith (22 February 1923 – 3 March 2008) was an English musician, record producer and engineer. In the 1960s, he notably engineered all of the Beatles' EMI studio recordings up to the end of 1965 and produced three Pink Floyd albums including their first, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Smith has received more than 16,486 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Smith is the 4,836th most popular writer (down from 4,199th in 2019), the 3,518th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,095th in 2019) and the 401st most popular British Writer.

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  • 16k

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  • 55.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Norman Smith ranks 4,836 out of 7,302. Before him are Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Barbro Lindgren, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Jeton Kelmendi, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. After him are Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Zhu Ziqing, Leonti Mroveli, Émile Souvestre, and Mary Stewart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Norman Smith ranks 320. Before him are Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mukesh, Giorgio Albertazzi, Vittorio De Seta, Gösta Löfgren, and Jaroslav Pelikan. After him are Harold Gould, Bülent Eken, Eugénio de Andrade, Max Jakobson, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, and Emilio Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 2008, Norman Smith ranks 233. Before him are Erwin Geschonneck, Dith Pran, Mustafa Khalil, Johnny Griffin, Valentin Bubukin, and Sergey Mergelyan. After him are John List, Elfriede Kaun, Anatoly Khrapaty, Natalia Bekhtereva, Adolfo Suárez Rivera, and Yegor Letov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Norman Smith ranks 3,518 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Mick Jones (1944), Natalia Tena (1984), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Osbert Salvin (1835), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835). After him are Joe Cole (1981), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Peter Whitehead (1914), Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), William Frederick Denning (1848), and Mary Stewart (1916).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Norman Smith ranks 401. Before him are Robert Bolt (1924), William Martin Leake (1777), Nicholas Evans (1950), John Lyly (1554), W. W. Jacobs (1863), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835). After him are Mary Stewart (1916), Len Deighton (1929), Alan Woods (1944), Susan Blackmore (1951), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), and Henry of Huntingdon (1080).

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