1940 - Today
Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes largely about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is known best for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robin Cook has received more than 1,194,944 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Robin Cook is the 137th most popular physician (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 958th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Physician.
Robin Cook is most famous for his medical thrillers.
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Among physicians, Robin Cook ranks 137 out of 502. Before him are Francysk Skaryna, Frederick Griffith, Charles Brenton Huggins, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Jens Christian Skou, and Marie François Xavier Bichat. After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Agnodice, Mungo Park, Ulf von Euler, Theodor Billroth, and Georgios Papanikolaou.
1486 - 1541
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 131
1879 - 1941
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 132
1901 - 1997
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 133
1723 - 1788
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 134
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 135
1771 - 1802
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 136
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 137
1903 - 1983
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 138
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 139
1771 - 1806
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 140
1905 - 1983
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 141
1829 - 1894
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 142
1883 - 1962
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 143
Among people born in 1940, Robin Cook ranks 74. Before him are Dennis Tito, Roberto Cavalli, Abdurrahman Wahid, Burt Young, Fatema Mernissi, and Bruce Chatwin. After him are Milena Dravić, Gudrun Ensslin, Lance Henriksen, Marlène Jobert, James Brolin, and John Gotti.
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 68
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 69
1940 - 2009
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 70
1940 - 2023
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 71
1940 - 2015
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 72
1940 - 1989
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 73
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 74
1940 - 2018
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 75
1940 - 1977
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 76
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 77
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 78
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 79
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 80
Among people born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 1,100 out of 18,182. Before him are Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), Larry Page (1973), Bob Kahn (1938), and George Stinney (1929). After him are Hattie McDaniel (1893), Tom Berenger (1949), Brooke Shields (1965), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Mary Ainsworth (1913), and Harry Dean Stanton (1926).
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 1,094
1921 - 1989
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 1,095
1937 - 1995
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 1,096
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 1,097
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 1,098
1929 - 1944
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 1,099
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 1,100
1893 - 1952
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 1,101
1949 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 1,102
1965 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 1,103
1934 - 2015
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 1,104
1913 - 1999
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 1,105
1926 - 2017
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 1,106
Among physicians born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 13. Before him are George Minot (1885), Ferid Murad (1936), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Virginia Apgar (1909), and Joseph Murray (1919). After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Louis Ignarro (1941), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), George H. Hitchings (1905), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), and Joseph Erlanger (1874).
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 7
1936 - 2023
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 8
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 9
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 10
1909 - 1974
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 11
1919 - 2012
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 12
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 13
1903 - 1983
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 14
1941 - Present
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 15
1925 - 2011
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 16
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 17
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 18
1874 - 1965
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 19