1974 - Today
Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English comedian, actor, director, and writer. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001–2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005–2007) and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Merchant has received more than 10,288,597 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Stephen Merchant is the 72nd most popular comedian (down from 57th in 2019), the 5,002nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,354th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Comedian.
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Among comedians, Stephen Merchant ranks 72 out of 91. Before him are Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Mindy Kaling, Sinbad, Jemaine Clement, and Fred Armisen. After him are Janeane Garofalo, Bill Burr, Nick Swardson, Andrew Dice Clay, Tim Meadows, and Kristen Schaal.
1981 - Present
HPI: 41.21
Rank: 66
1964 - Present
HPI: 41.18
Rank: 67
1979 - Present
HPI: 40.85
Rank: 68
1956 - Present
HPI: 40.76
Rank: 69
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.74
Rank: 70
1966 - Present
HPI: 40.69
Rank: 71
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 72
1964 - Present
HPI: 40.56
Rank: 73
1968 - Present
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 74
1976 - Present
HPI: 37.42
Rank: 75
1957 - Present
HPI: 37.39
Rank: 76
1961 - Present
HPI: 37.21
Rank: 77
1978 - Present
HPI: 36.66
Rank: 78
Among people born in 1974, Stephen Merchant ranks 261. Before him are Meg White, Hichem Mechichi, Rasheed Wallace, J Dilla, David Faustino, and Krisztina Egerszegi. After him are Kōji Wada, Christopher Gorham, Randall Park, Pablo Pineda, Lezley Zen, and Thomas Enqvist.
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.74
Rank: 255
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.73
Rank: 256
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.71
Rank: 257
1974 - 2006
HPI: 40.69
Rank: 258
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.69
Rank: 259
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.67
Rank: 260
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 261
1974 - 2016
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 262
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.56
Rank: 263
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.56
Rank: 264
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.53
Rank: 265
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.48
Rank: 266
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.48
Rank: 267
Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Merchant ranks 5,002 out of 7,765. Before him are Steve Strange (1959), Horace Gould (1921), Paul Mariner (1953), John Nunn (1955), Ronald Pope (1920), and Lucy Gordon (1980). After him are Chris Claremont (1950), Bob Bell (1958), Anne Heywood (1931), Jeff Noon (1957), Alan Sugar (1947), and William Fox (1812).
1959 - 2015
HPI: 40.65
Rank: 4,996
1921 - 1968
HPI: 40.64
Rank: 4,997
1953 - 2021
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 4,998
1955 - Present
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 4,999
1920 - 1997
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 5,000
1980 - 2009
HPI: 40.61
Rank: 5,001
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 5,002
1950 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 5,003
1958 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 5,004
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 5,005
1957 - Present
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 5,006
1947 - Present
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 5,007
1812 - 1893
HPI: 40.57
Rank: 5,008
Among comedians born in United Kingdom, Stephen Merchant ranks 6. Before him are Bob Hope (1903), Ricky Gervais (1961), Simon Pegg (1970), Steve Coogan (1965), and Tracey Ullman (1959).
1903 - 2003
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 2
1970 - Present
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 3
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 4
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.29
Rank: 5
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 6