WRITER

Winston Churchill

1871 - 1947

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Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winston Churchill has received more than 67,910,955 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Winston Churchill is the 5,969th most popular writer (down from 5,398th in 2019), the 9,613th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,815th in 2019) and the 726th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 68M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Winston Churchill ranks 5,969 out of 7,302. Before him are Hugh Blair, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Quinn, Lucía Etxebarría, Monika Fagerholm, and Rói Patursson. After him are Walter Lord, Teréz Karacs, Luisa Valenzuela, Kay Redfield Jamison, Simo Puupponen, and Farley Mowat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Winston Churchill ranks 157. Before him are Arthur Surridge Hunt, Richard Gunn, Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, Edmund Breese, Thalia Flora-Karavia, and Hermanus Brockmann. After him are Heinrich Schroth, Henry Stephenson, Wilfred Lucas, Max Bodenstein, Yoshioka Yayoi, and Clarence Hudson White. Among people deceased in 1947, Winston Churchill ranks 201. Before him are Georg Hoffmann, Joseph Cook, Ercole Olgeni, David Samanez Ocampo, José Luis Tamayo, and Evripidis Bakirtzis. After him are Øistein Schirmer, Oscar Grégoire, Harald Natvig, Ekaterina Karavelova, Mari Gerekmezyan, and Charles Schlee.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Winston Churchill ranks 9,613 out of 20,380. Before him are Alex English (1954), Suzanne Ciani (1946), Jeanne Ashworth (1938), Damon Lindelof (1973), Richard Maibaum (1909), and Daniel Quinn (1935). After him are Andrew Hampsten (1962), Toni Frissell (1907), Ray Gillen (1959), Paul Pilgrim (1883), Robert Marshak (1916), and Florence Henderson (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Winston Churchill ranks 726. Before him are William Inge (1913), Wilma Mankiller (1945), J. Michael Straczynski (1954), James Dickey (1923), Damon Lindelof (1973), and Daniel Quinn (1935). After him are Walter Lord (1917), Michael Parenti (1933), Tom Brokaw (1940), Richard Russo (1949), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), and Gardner Fox (1911).

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