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Sarah, Duchess of York

1959 - Today

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Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, philanthropist, television personality, and member of the extended British royal family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who is the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and a younger brother of King Charles III. Ferguson was raised in Dummer, Hampshire, and attended the Queen's Secretarial College. She later worked for public relations firms in London, and then for a publishing company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah, Duchess of York has received more than 13,289,316 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Sarah, Duchess of York is the 1,224th most popular writer (down from 864th in 2019), the 908th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 703rd in 2019) and the 107th most popular British Writer.

Sarah, Duchess of York is most famous for her marriage to Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She was born in London on October 17, 1959, and married Andrew in 1986.

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  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sarah, Duchess of York ranks 1,224 out of 7,302Before her are Eiji Yoshikawa, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Jan Długosz, Raymond Radiguet, Wilhelm Weitling, and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. After her are James Anderson, Brian Tracy, Giovanni Verga, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Harry Harrison, and Juliusz Słowacki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Sarah, Duchess of York ranks 40Before her are Abdullah of Pahang, Simon Cowell, Kelly Lynch, Vahagn Khachaturyan, Michel Preud'homme, and Florence Griffith Joyner. After her are Li Qiang, Sade, Rigoberta Menchú, Gerhard Berger, Kyle MacLachlan, and Moza bint Nasser.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sarah, Duchess of York ranks 908 out of 8,785Before her are Gary Lineker (1960), Edward Burne-Jones (1833), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), Danny Boyle (1956), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), and Van Morrison (1945). After her are James Anderson (1680), Freeman Dyson (1923), Adelard of Bath (1075), Anne Hyde (1637), Pat Hitchcock (1928), and David I of Scotland (1084).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Sarah, Duchess of York ranks 107Before her are E. M. Forster (1879), John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Edmund Spenser (1552), Samuel Butler (1612), and Elizabeth Gaskell (1810). After her are James Anderson (1680), David Irving (1938), John Dryden (1631), Arthur Hailey (1920), Samuel Pepys (1633), and Rosamunde Pilcher (1924).