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Brian O'Nolan

1911 - 1966

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Brian O'Nolan was a writer born in 1911 in , which is now part of modern day Strabane, United Kingdom. Brian O'Nolan died at 55 years old in NaN.

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2024). Brian O'Nolan is the 1,062nd most popular writer (up from 4,377th in 2024), the 988th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,127th in 2019) and the 109th most popular British Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Brian O'Nolan ranks 1,062 out of 7,302. Before him are Gottfried von Strassburg, Alexander Litvinenko, Sulpicius Severus, Adalbert Stifter, Radoje Domanović, and Robert Graves. After him are Clifford D. Simak, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, P. L. Travers, William Gibson, Nikolay Nekrasov, and W. G. Sebald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Brian O'Nolan ranks 63. Before him are Cantinflas, Henri Troyat, Vincent Price, Alfonso García Robles, Ashok Kumar, and Alfred Naujocks. After him are George Stigler, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Bernard Herrmann, Karel Čurda, Lee J. Cobb, and Hans von Ohain. Among people deceased in 1966, Brian O'Nolan ranks 36. Before him are Wäinö Aaltonen, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Carlo Carrà, and Alfred Naujocks. After him are D. T. Suzuki, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Charlotte Cooper, Hannes Kolehmainen, Battista Farina, and Gino Severini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian O'Nolan ranks 988 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), John A. Hobson (1858), Rachel Weisz (1970), George Robert Gray (1808), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), and Robert Graves (1895). After him are Boris Karloff (1887), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), James Clark Ross (1800), Alfred Molina (1953), Leigh Hunt (1784), and Michael Palin (1943).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Brian O'Nolan ranks 109. Before him are John Fowles (1926), Thomas Malory (1405), Edmund Spenser (1552), James Hadley Chase (1906), John Dryden (1631), and Robert Graves (1895). After him are Leigh Hunt (1784), James Thomson (1700), Tony Buzan (1942), Oliver Sacks (1933), Len Deighton (1929), and Diana Wynne Jones (1934).

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