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Patrick Leigh Fermor

1915 - 2011

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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick Leigh Fermor has received more than 835,072 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Patrick Leigh Fermor is the 2,871st most popular writer (up from 3,626th in 2019), the 2,159th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,675th in 2019) and the 245th most popular British Writer.

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  • 840k

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  • 52.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor ranks 2,871 out of 5,755. Before him are Nathan Birnbaum, Mika Antić, Booker T. Washington, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Alois Musil, and Hervé Bazin. After him are Jónas Hallgrímsson, Édouard Chavannes, Andrea Dworkin, Israel Zolli, Philip Arthur Fisher, and Joan Maragall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Patrick Leigh Fermor ranks 113. Before him are Ken Aston, James Tiptree Jr., Albert O. Hirschman, Henry Kuttner, Caterina Boratto, and Raúl Alberto Lastiri. After him are Takeshi Kamo, Paul Castellano, Norman Wisdom, Willie Dixon, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, and Hoàng Văn Thái. Among people deceased in 2011, Patrick Leigh Fermor ranks 147. Before him are Abdul Fatah Younis, Osamu Dezaki, Bo Carpelan, Seve Ballesteros, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., and Helen Frankenthaler. After him are Gerry Rafferty, Robert Brout, Lena Nyman, Edward Hardwicke, Bernd Eichinger, and Saad el-Shazly.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick Leigh Fermor ranks 2,159 out of 7,765. Before him are Colin Renfrew (1937), Murray Head (1946), Chas Chandler (1938), Alexander Parkes (1813), Flora MacDonald (1722), and George Buchanan (1506). After him are Eddie Clarke (1950), Andrew Moray (1265), Mick Box (1947), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), Roger Bannister (1929), and Roy Harrod (1900).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Patrick Leigh Fermor ranks 245. Before him are Walter Pater (1839), Ouida (1839), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), Edwin Arnold (1832), Ephraim Chambers (1680), and Thomas Kyd (1558). After him are John Ford (1586), Robert Harris (1957), Peter James (1948), Richard Baxter (1615), Marjorie Boulton (1924), and Peter Mayle (1939).

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