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Robert Ludlum

1927 - 2001

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Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 300 million and 500 million. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Ludlum has received more than 1,900,569 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Robert Ludlum is the 625th most popular writer (down from 598th in 2019), the 686th most popular biography from United States (down from 621st in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Writer.

Robert Ludlum is most famous for his Bourne series of novels, which have been adapted into movies.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Ludlum ranks 625 out of 5,755. Before him are John Bunyan, Daphne du Maurier, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Georg Büchner. After him are Ivan Franko, John Irving, Edward Bernays, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Vasubandhu, and Poliziano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Robert Ludlum ranks 29. Before him are Maurice Béjart, Janet Leigh, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Martin Lewis Perl, and Don Shirley. After him are Hubert de Givenchy, Robert Hossein, Manfred Eigen, Harry Belafonte, Emmanuelle Riva, and Angelo Sodano. Among people deceased in 2001, Robert Ludlum ranks 22. Before him are Fred Hoyle, Wilhelm Mohnke, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Ernst Gombrich, Alberto Korda, and William Hanna. After him are Marie José of Belgium, Balthus, John Lee Hooker, Dương Văn Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and Douglas Adams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Ludlum ranks 686 out of 18,182. Before him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), Bing Crosby (1903), Monica Lewinsky (1973), Don Johnson (1949), Michael Bloomberg (1942), and Donald A. Glaser (1926). After him are Carole Lombard (1908), Robert Altman (1925), Bill de Blasio (1961), John Irving (1942), Joe Louis (1914), and Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Ludlum ranks 67. Before him are Washington Irving (1783), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Thomas Wolfe (1900), Michael Crichton (1942), and Anne Rice (1941). After him are John Irving (1942), Thomas Harris (1940), Robert E. Howard (1906), William Saroyan (1908), Maya Angelou (1928), and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867).

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