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Peter Ackroyd

1949 - Today

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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 748,107 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Ackroyd is the 4,675th most popular writer (up from 4,818th in 2019), the 3,371st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,684th in 2019) and the 379th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Ackroyd ranks 4,675 out of 7,302. Before him are Süreyya Ağaoğlu, H. C. Artmann, Juan José Arreola, Stephen Baxter, Elias Khoury, and Michalina Wisłocka. After him are Paweł Huelle, Nikolai Tikhonov, August Jakobson, Tobias Wolff, Samo Chalupka, and Gillian Rubinstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Ackroyd ranks 403. Before him are Emanuel Ax, Rubén Pagnanini, Kurt Beck, Alexander Maltsev, Mart Helme, and Olivier Roy. After him are Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Hugo Sotil, Anthony Denison, Jonathan Carroll, Carlos Babington, and Anatoliy Konkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 3,371 out of 8,785. Before him are Nigel Kennedy (1956), Alan Cumming (1965), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), Trevor Bolder (1950), Stephen Baxter (1957), and Simone Perrotta (1977). After him are Alexander McDonnell (1798), Robert W. Paul (1869), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), David Octavius Hill (1802), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), and Henry Bishop (1786).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Ackroyd ranks 379. Before him are W. S. Gilbert (1836), Sarah Kane (1971), Grace Aguilar (1816), Thomas Middleton (1580), Taylor Caldwell (1900), and Stephen Baxter (1957). After him are Gillian Rubinstein (1942), Edward Thomas (1878), John Mawe (1764), James Thomson (1700), Edward William Lane (1801), and Michael Frayn (1933).

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