1959 - Today
Steven Knight (born 1 April 1959) is a British screenwriter, film and television producer and director. Knight wrote the screenplays for the films Closed Circuit, Dirty Pretty Things, and Eastern Promises, and also wrote and directed the films Locke and Hummingbird (a.k.a. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Knight has received more than 2,586,510 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Steven Knight is the 622nd most popular film director (up from 664th in 2019), the 2,326th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,444th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Film Director.
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Among film directors, Steven Knight ranks 622 out of 1,581. Before him are Walter Salles, Robert Stevenson, Giovanni Pastrone, Paul Mazursky, Shirin Neshat, and Ann Hui. After him are Paul Grimault, Enzo G. Castellari, Brad Bird, Juraj Herz, Stan Winston, and Yakov Protazanov.
1956 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 616
1905 - 1986
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 617
1883 - 1959
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 618
1930 - 2014
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 619
1957 - Present
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 620
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 621
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 622
1905 - 1994
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 623
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 624
1957 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 625
1934 - 2018
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 626
1946 - 2008
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 627
1881 - 1945
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 628
Among people born in 1959, Steven Knight ranks 133. Before him are Pietro Vierchowod, Jim Yong Kim, Bernardo Rezende, Roberto Moreno, Irene Cara, and Nobuo Uematsu. After him are Hassan Diab, Massimo Bonini, Majid Majidi, Majed Abdullah, Erhard Loretan, and David Koresh.
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 127
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 128
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 129
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 130
1959 - 2022
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 131
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 132
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 133
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 134
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 135
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 136
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 137
1959 - 2011
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 138
1959 - 1993
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 139
Among people born in United Kingdom, Steven Knight ranks 2,326 out of 7,765. Before him are Steve Jones (1955), Tony Judt (1948), Paul Young (1956), Ernest Marsden (1889), Delroy Lindo (1952), and Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891). After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Edward Coke (1552), John Latham (1740), Auguste Couder (1789), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), and Lytton Strachey (1880).
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,320
1948 - 2010
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,321
1956 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2,322
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2,323
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2,324
1891 - 1914
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 2,325
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 2,326
1893 - 1971
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 2,327
1552 - 1634
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 2,328
1740 - 1837
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 2,329
1789 - 1873
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 2,330
1874 - 1957
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 2,331
1880 - 1932
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 2,332
Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Steven Knight ranks 49. Before him are Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), George Albert Smith (1864), Hugh Hudson (1936), Matthew Vaughn (1971), and Robert Stevenson (1905). After him are Terence Fisher (1904), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), John Madden (1949), James Whale (1889), John Alcott (1930), and Ronald Neame (1911).
1914 - 1987
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 43
1920 - 2018
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 44
1864 - 1959
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 45
1936 - 2023
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 46
1971 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 47
1905 - 1986
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 48
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 49
1904 - 1980
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 50
1875 - 1941
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 51
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 52
1889 - 1957
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 53
1930 - 1986
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 54
1911 - 2010
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 55