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J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

  • Fame85.2
  • Momentum15.1
  • Global rank#217
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  • Fame85.2
  • Momentum15.1
  • Global rank#217
  • United Kingdom rank#28
  • Writers rank#34
  • Wikipedia260.6K
Born 1965 · age 61United Kingdom
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  • Wikipedia
    139 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Global rank
    #217
    Fame.am leaderboard
  • Age
    61
    Born 1965
  • Known for
    Harry Potter and the P…
    2001
Summary
Updated 2026-08-13

She turned a train-delay daydream into the best-selling book series in history — 600 million copies of a boy wizard's story — then used the fortune to fund causes that made half her audience stop speaking to her.

Biography

About

Joanne Rowling conceived Harry Potter in 1990, then spent seven years watching her mother die, divorcing, raising a daughter alone, and living in relative poverty before Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone reached print in 1997. Six sequels followed through 2007; Forbes named her the world's highest-paid author in 2008. The books spawned 84 translations and a global film-and-game empire. She writes crime fiction as Robert Galbraith and has given over $200 million to medical research, at-risk women and children, and Labour Party efforts against Scottish independence and Brexit. In 2019 she…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling
said
I've never set out to teach anyone anything.
— Interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves, moderated by by Lizo Mzimba. Chamber of Secrets DVD (February 2003)
J. K. Rowling
said
If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore.
— Interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves, moderated by by Lizo Mzimba. Chamber of Secrets DVD (February 2003)
J. K. Rowling
said
I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say on — on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him.
— Interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves, moderated by by Lizo Mzimba. Chamber of Secrets DVD (February 2003)
J. K. Rowling
said
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. [...] It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope.
— As quoted in Ann Treneman "J. K. Rowling : The Interview", The Times (30 June 2000)
J. K. Rowling
said
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, "Ms.
— As quoted in "Success of Harry Potter bowls author over", CNN (21 October 1999)
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Stable
85.2
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum15.1
Historical33.4
Now attention41.1
Source confidence80.0
Completeness90.0
Global rank
#217
Country rank
#28
Category rank
#34
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Sources

  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence