The most popular
all-time writers in the UK

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  1. 80%

    Roald Dahl

    Writer
    The 7th most popular and the 69th most famous all-time person
  2. 73%

    Beatrix Potter

    Writer
    The 32nd most popular and the 231st most famous all-time person
  3. 72%

    Charles Dickens

    Writer
    The 36th most popular and the 99th most famous all-time person
  4. 67%

    Anne Frank

    Writer
    The 4th most popular and the 7th most famous all-time writer
  5. 66%

    William Shakespeare

    Writer
    The most popular and the most famous poet
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  7. 66%

    Agatha Christie

    Writer
    The 93rd most popular and the 134th most famous all-time person
  8. 65%

    Charles Darwin

    Writer
    The 7th most popular and the 6th most famous all-time writer
  9. 64%

    Stephen King

    Writer
    The most popular and the 2nd most famous contemporary fiction writer
  10. 64%

    J. K. Rowling

    Writer
    The 2nd most popular and the most famous contemporary fiction writer
  11. 63%

    Lewis Carroll

    Writer
    The 127th most popular and the 472nd most famous all-time person