WRITER

Russell T Davies

1963 - Today

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Stephen Russell Davies ( DAY-vis; born 27 April 1963), known professionally as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for being the original showrunner and head writer of the 2005 revival of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who, from 2005 to 2010 and again since 2023. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Russell T Davies has received more than 3,062,445 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Russell T Davies is the 6,796th most popular writer (down from 5,959th in 2019), the 6,291st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,495th in 2019) and the 708th most popular British Writer.

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  • 3.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Russell T Davies ranks 6,796 out of 7,302Before him are Bryan Fuller, D. C. Fontana, Dave Meltzer, Philip Levine, Nikolay Abramov, and Ti-Grace Atkinson. After him are Zoran Stefanović, Timothy Findley, Marcel Beyer, Julia Franck, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Deborah Harkness.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Russell T Davies ranks 719Before him are Wouter Bos, Helen Sharman, Olga Chernyavskaya, Charles Oakley, Giovanni Francini, and Oğuz Çetin. After him are Cristina Marcos, Armando Iannucci, Rolando Maran, Mikhail Mamiashvili, Peter Fröjdfeldt, and Gian-Carlo Coppola.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Russell T Davies ranks 6,291 out of 8,785Before him are Marc Quinn (1964), Carl Fogarty (1965), Ross Barkley (1993), John Hollins (1946), Jimmy McIlroy (1931), and Richard Norman Shaw (1831). After him are Andy Green (1962), Susannah Harker (1965), Jamie Redknapp (1973), Christopher Dean (1958), Leslie Thorne (1916), and Oliver Parker (1960).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Russell T Davies ranks 708Before him are Stanley Middleton (1919), Charley Boorman (1966), Nina Bawden (1925), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), Stevie Smith (1902), and Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981). After him are Noel Streatfeild (1895), Sebastian Faulks (1953), Louis MacNeice (1907), Robert Bridges (1844), Hugh MacDiarmid (1892), and John Mortimer (1923).