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Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 - 1930

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 120 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Conan Doyle is the 71st most popular writer (down from 64th in 2024), the 66th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 45th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Writer.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is most famous for his Sherlock Holmes series.

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Among writers, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 71 out of 7,302. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges, Stefan Zweig, and Thomas Mann. After him are Robert Frost, Romain Rolland, Charles Perrault, Umberto Eco, Giacomo Casanova, and Sappho.

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Among people born in 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 3. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Pierre Curie. After him are Henri Bergson, L. L. Zamenhof, Knut Hamsun, Edmund Husserl, Svante Arrhenius, John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1930, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 1. After him are D. H. Lawrence, Fridtjof Nansen, Ilya Repin, Alfred Wegener, Mary Harris Jones, Zewditu, Allvar Gullstrand, Fritz Pregl, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Christiaan Eijkman, and William Howard Taft.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 66 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John Lennon (1940), John Dalton (1766), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), David Hume (1711), and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900). After him are James V of Scotland (1512), Aleister Crowley (1875), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Edward the Black Prince (1330), Robert Hooke (1635), and Lord Byron (1788).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Conan Doyle ranks 6. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Agatha Christie (1890), H. G. Wells (1866), Charles Dickens (1812), and Thomas Hardy (1840). After him are Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), and Lewis Carroll (1832).

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