Ian Fleming

British author (1908–1964)

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Lived 1908–1964, aged 56United Kingdom

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Fame55.4
Momentum17.3
United Kingdom rank#52
Writers rank#15
Wikipedia132K

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88 languages
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Rank in United Kingdom
#52
Writers
Era
1908–1964
Aged 56

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Updated 2026-05-29

British spy novelist who created James Bond and made espionage chic. Came from old money, worked in intelligence during WWII, then spent the 1950s-60s turning secret agent fantasies into bestsellers.

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Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the University of Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.

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