1948 - Today
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gibson has received more than 6,182,591 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. William Gibson is the 978th most popular writer (up from 997th in 2019), the 1,154th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,114th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Writer.
William Gibson is most famous for his novel Neuromancer, which has been called the "best cyberpunk novel ever written" and "the archetypal cyberpunk work."
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Among writers, William Gibson ranks 978 out of 5,755. Before him are Henry Fielding, Danilo Kiš, Daniel Keyes, Zeami Motokiyo, Persius, and Prudentius. After him are Lucius Accius, Martha Gellhorn, Marguerite Porete, Katherine Mansfield, John William Polidori, and Henri Troyat.
1707 - 1754
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 972
1935 - 1989
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 973
1927 - 2014
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 974
1363 - 1443
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 975
34 - 62
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 976
348 - 413
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 977
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 978
170 BC - 84 BC
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 979
1908 - 1998
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 980
1250 - 1310
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 981
1888 - 1923
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 982
1795 - 1821
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 983
1911 - 2007
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 984
Among people born in 1948, William Gibson ranks 60. Before him are Powers Boothe, Patrizia Reggiani, Edmund Kemper, Bille August, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. After him are Rory Gallagher, Svetlana Savitskaya, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Kurzweil, and Tom Wilkinson.
1948 - 2017
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 54
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 55
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 56
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 57
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 58
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 59
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 60
1948 - 1995
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 61
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 62
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 64
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 65
1948 - 2023
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 66
Among people born in United States, William Gibson ranks 1,154 out of 18,182. Before him are Sonny Liston (1932), Adam West (1928), Daniel Keyes (1927), Loie Fuller (1862), Don Siegel (1912), and George H. Hitchings (1905). After him are Andre Agassi (1970), Robert Taylor (1911), Julian Schwinger (1918), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Martha Gellhorn (1908), and Hal Holbrook (1925).
1932 - 1970
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 1,148
1928 - 2017
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 1,149
1927 - 2014
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 1,150
1862 - 1928
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 1,151
1912 - 1991
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 1,152
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 1,153
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 1,154
1970 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 1,155
1911 - 1969
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 1,156
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 1,157
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 1,158
1908 - 1998
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 1,159
1925 - 2021
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 1,160
Among writers born in United States, William Gibson ranks 116. Before him are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Richard Matheson (1926), Stephen Crane (1871), James Brendan Connolly (1868), Donna Leon (1942), and Daniel Keyes (1927). After him are Martha Gellhorn (1908), Hunter S. Thompson (1937), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Irving Stone (1903), Clive Cussler (1931), and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900).
1868 - 1920
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 110
1926 - 2013
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 111
1871 - 1900
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 112
1868 - 1957
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 113
1942 - Present
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 114
1927 - 2014
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 115
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 116
1908 - 1998
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 117
1937 - 2005
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 118
1953 - Present
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 119
1903 - 1989
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 120
1931 - 2020
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 121
1900 - 1948
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 122