1856 - 1927
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אחד העם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahad Ha'am has received more than 282,357 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ahad Ha'am is the 1,669th most popular writer (up from 2,025th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 261st in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Writer.
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Among writers, Ahad Ha'am ranks 1,669 out of 5,755. Before him are Hadewijch, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Walafrid Strabo, Vicki Baum, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, and Antonio de Nebrija. After him are Ivan Klíma, Kateb Yacine, John of Kronstadt, Frans Sammut, Liu Cixin, and Maria Gripe.
1200 - 1260
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 1,663
1797 - 1858
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 1,664
808 - 849
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 1,665
1888 - 1960
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 1,666
993 - 1055
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,667
1441 - 1522
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,668
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,669
1931 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,670
1929 - 1989
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,671
1829 - 1908
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 1,672
1945 - 2011
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 1,673
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 1,674
1923 - 2007
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 1,675
Among people born in 1856, Ahad Ha'am ranks 39. Before him are Wilhelm von Gloeden, Henri-Edmond Cross, Émile Picard, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, and Pedro Lascuráin. After him are Enrico Ferri, Naftali Herz Imber, Stepa Stepanović, Maurycy Gottlieb, Maurice Sarrail, and Carl David Tolmé Runge. Among people deceased in 1927, Ahad Ha'am ranks 40. Before him are Vilhelm Thomsen, Sisowath of Cambodia, Louise Abbéma, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Sergey Sazonov, and Jānis Čakste. After him are Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jovan Cvijić, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Inayat Khan, and Carl David Tolmé Runge.
1856 - 1931
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 33
1856 - 1910
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 34
1856 - 1941
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 35
1856 - 1934
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 36
1856 - 1913
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 37
1856 - 1952
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 38
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 39
1856 - 1929
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 40
1856 - 1909
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 41
1856 - 1929
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 42
1856 - 1879
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 43
1856 - 1929
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 44
1856 - 1927
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 45
1842 - 1927
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 34
1840 - 1927
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 35
1853 - 1927
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 36
1853 - 1927
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 37
1860 - 1927
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 38
1859 - 1927
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 39
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 40
1846 - 1927
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 41
1871 - 1927
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 42
1865 - 1927
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 43
1864 - 1927
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 44
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 45
1856 - 1927
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 46
Among people born in Ukraine, Ahad Ha'am ranks 231 out of 1,083. Before him are Alexandru Averescu (1859), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Michael of Chernigov (1185), and Ida Kamińska (1899). After him are Vladimir Dal (1801), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Maya Deren (1917), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), and Joseph Kobzon (1937).
1859 - 1938
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 225
1892 - 1967
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 226
1937 - 2020
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 227
1860 - 1930
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 228
1185 - 1246
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 229
1899 - 1980
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 230
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 231
1801 - 1872
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 232
1913 - 1963
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 233
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 234
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 235
1819 - 1887
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 236
1937 - 2018
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 237
Among writers born in Ukraine, Ahad Ha'am ranks 30. Before him are Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836). After him are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), David Burliuk (1882), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Lina Kostenko (1930), and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918).
1909 - 1966
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 24
1809 - 1849
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 25
1873 - 1934
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 26
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 27
1932 - 2018
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 28
1836 - 1878
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 29
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 30
1819 - 1887
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 31
1882 - 1967
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 32
1856 - 1909
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 33
1907 - 1989
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 34
1930 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 35
1918 - 1970
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 36