1915 - 1983
Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (; December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983). He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ross Macdonald has received more than 403,083 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ross Macdonald is the 1,845th most popular writer (up from 1,908th in 2019), the 2,317th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,257th in 2019) and the 214th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Ross Macdonald ranks 1,845 out of 5,794. Before him are Alex Haley, Arthur Machen, Tadeusz Borowski, Moschus, François Coppée, and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. After him are Eva Schloss, Stephen Crane, François Pierre La Varenne, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Tavo Burat, and Avraham Stern.
1921 - 1992
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 1,839
1863 - 1947
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 1,840
1922 - 1951
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 1,841
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 1,842
1842 - 1908
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 1,843
1825 - 1898
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,844
1915 - 1983
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,845
1929 - Present
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 1,846
1871 - 1900
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 1,847
1618 - 1678
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 1,848
1522 - 1592
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 1,849
1932 - 2009
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 1,850
1907 - 1942
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 1,851
Among people born in 1915, Ross Macdonald ranks 76. Before him are Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Kon Ichikawa, Hanns Martin Schleyer, J. C. R. Licklider, Liisi Oterma, and Tadeusz Kantor. After him are Geraldine of Albania, John Profumo, Prince George William of Hanover, Kiyosi Itô, Arsenio Erico, and Jo Van Fleet. Among people deceased in 1983, Ross Macdonald ranks 60. Before him are Norma Shearer, László Budai, Salo Flohr, Karen Carpenter, Tino Rossi, and Carolyn Jones. After him are Marianne Brandt, Miguel Alemán Valdés, Vladimir Gelfand, Ralph Richardson, Ivan Vinogradov, and Ira Gershwin.
1915 - 2000
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 70
1915 - 2008
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 71
1915 - 1977
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 72
1915 - 1990
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 73
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 74
1915 - 1990
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 75
1915 - 1983
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 76
1915 - 2002
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 77
1915 - 2006
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 78
1915 - 2006
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 79
1915 - 2008
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 80
1915 - 1977
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 81
1915 - 1996
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 82
1902 - 1983
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 54
1928 - 1983
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 55
1908 - 1983
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 56
1950 - 1983
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 57
1907 - 1983
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 58
1930 - 1983
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 59
1915 - 1983
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 60
1893 - 1983
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 61
1900 - 1983
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 62
1923 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 63
1902 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 64
1891 - 1983
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 65
1896 - 1983
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 66
Among people born in United States, Ross Macdonald ranks 2,317 out of 15,968. Before him are Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Alex Haley (1921), Gloria Steinem (1934), Paul Bowles (1910), Grace Slick (1939), and Danny Elfman (1953). After him are Peter Diamond (1940), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Chris Brown (1989), Pinetop Perkins (1913), Robert Sternberg (1949), and Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889).
1959 - 1998
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,311
1921 - 1992
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,312
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,313
1910 - 1999
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,314
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,315
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 2,316
1915 - 1983
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 2,317
1940 - Present
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 2,318
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 2,319
1989 - Present
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 2,320
1913 - 2011
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 2,321
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 2,322
1889 - 1944
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 2,323
Among writers born in United States, Ross Macdonald ranks 214. Before him are Langston Hughes (1902), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Agnes Smedley (1892), Harold Bloom (1930), Bernard Malamud (1914), and Alex Haley (1921). After him are Stephen Crane (1871), Dorothy Parker (1893), Morgan Robertson (1861), John Kennedy Toole (1937), Howard Fast (1914), and Voltairine de Cleyre (1866).
1902 - 1967
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 208
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 209
1892 - 1950
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 210
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 211
1914 - 1986
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 212
1921 - 1992
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 213
1915 - 1983
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 214
1871 - 1900
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 215
1893 - 1967
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 216
1861 - 1915
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 217
1937 - 1969
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 218
1914 - 2003
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 219
1866 - 1912
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 220