The Most Famous
WRITERS from French Polynesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in French Polynesia. This makes French Polynesia the birth place of the 141st most number of Writers behind Rwanda and Lesotho.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Writers of all time. This list of famous Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Conrad Hall (1926 - 2003)
With an HPI of 44.04, Conrad Hall is the most famous Writer. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was a French Polynesian-born American cinematographer. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he became widely prominent as a cinematographer earning numerous accolades including three Academy Awards (with ten nominations), three BAFTA Awards and five American Society of Cinematographers Awards. Hall won three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for his work on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), American Beauty (1999), and Road to Perdition (2002). He was also Oscar-nominated for Morituri (1965), The Professionals (1966), In Cold Blood (1967), The Day of the Locust (1975), Tequila Sunrise (1988), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), and A Civil Action (1998). He is also known for Cool Hand Luke (1967), Fat City (1972), and Marathon Man (1976). In 2003, Hall was judged to be one of history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. He has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1926 and 1926. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Conrad Hall.
