1949 - Today
Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Ackroyd has received more than 690,251 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Peter Ackroyd is the 4,835th most popular writer (down from 4,605th in 2019), the 3,692nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,606th in 2019) and the 420th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Peter Ackroyd ranks 4,835 out of 5,755. Before him are Emmanuel Roblès, Johan Falkberget, Guzal Sitdikova, Günter Kunert, Aleksei Arbuzov, and László Németh. After him are Ricardo Güiraldes, Władysław Broniewski, Edoardo Sanguineti, Miljenko Jergović, Marie Kondo, and Dee Brown.
1914 - 1995
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 4,829
1879 - 1967
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 4,830
1952 - Present
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 4,831
1929 - 2019
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 4,832
1908 - 1986
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 4,833
1901 - 1975
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 4,834
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 4,835
1886 - 1927
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 4,836
1897 - 1962
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 4,837
1930 - 2010
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 4,838
1966 - Present
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 4,839
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 4,840
1908 - 2002
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 4,841
Among people born in 1949, Peter Ackroyd ranks 416. Before him are Jupp Kapellmann, Maury Chaykin, Dave Gibbons, Dominic Sena, Rubén Pagnanini, and Fred Frith. After him are Ivo Linna, Valeriu Muravschi, Tommy Seebach, Lyubov Polishchuk, Heather Menzies, and Volodymyr Onyshchenko.
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 410
1949 - 2010
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 411
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 412
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 413
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 414
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 415
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 416
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 417
1949 - 2020
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 418
1949 - 2003
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 419
1949 - 2006
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 420
1949 - 2017
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 421
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 422
Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 3,692 out of 7,765. Before him are Peter Lorimer (1946), Chad of Mercia (634), Daniel Oliver (1830), Kenneth Cranham (1944), Fred Frith (1949), and Margaret Leighton (1922). After him are Leslie Phillips (1924), Stafford Cripps (1889), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Edwin Long (1829), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), and John Major (1467).
1946 - 2021
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 3,686
634 - 672
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 3,687
1830 - 1916
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 3,688
1944 - Present
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 3,689
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 3,690
1922 - 1976
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 3,691
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 3,692
1924 - 2022
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 3,693
1889 - 1952
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 3,694
1934 - 2022
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 3,695
1829 - 1891
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 3,696
1903 - 1990
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 3,697
1467 - 1550
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 3,698
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 420. Before him are Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Charles Williams (1886), Henry Lincoln (1930), and George Crabbe (1754). After him are Margery Kempe (1373), Roger Hargreaves (1935), Kate Atkinson (1951), Michael Grant (1914), John Braine (1922), and William Tenn (1920).
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 414
1844 - 1929
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 415
1805 - 1882
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 416
1886 - 1945
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 417
1930 - 2022
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 418
1754 - 1832
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 419
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 420
1373 - Present
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 421
1935 - 1988
HPI: 45.71
Rank: 422
1951 - Present
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 423
1914 - 2004
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 424
1922 - 1986
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 425
1920 - 2010
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 426