1939 - 2018
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Oz has received more than 797,157 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Amos Oz is the 284th most popular writer (down from 269th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Israel (up from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Writer.
Amos Oz is a famous Israeli author. He is most famous for his novel "A Tale of Love and Darkness."
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Among writers, Amos Oz ranks 284 out of 5,755. Before him are Antonin Artaud, Marcus Terentius Varro, Shota Rustaveli, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Eugenio Montale, and Primo Levi. After him are Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Musil, Archilochus, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Ernst Jünger.
1896 - 1948
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 278
116 BC - 27 BC
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 279
1172 - 1216
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 280
1749 - 1791
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 281
1896 - 1981
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 282
1919 - 1987
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 283
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 284
1931 - 2015
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 285
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 286
680 BC - 645 BC
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 287
1836 - 1895
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 288
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 289
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 290
Among people born in 1939, Amos Oz ranks 9. Before him are Ian McKellen, Stanislav Petrov, Ali Khamenei, Francis Ford Coppola, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Amanda Lear. After him are George Lazenby, Harvey Keitel, Margaret Atwood, Giovanni Trapattoni, Giovanni Falcone, and Reuven Rivlin. Among people deceased in 2018, Amos Oz ranks 12. Before him are Ingvar Kamprad, Stan Lee, Montserrat Caballé, Miloš Forman, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Charles K. Kao. After him are Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Philip Roth, John McCain, Paul Bocuse, Isao Takahata, and Stephen Hillenburg.
1939 - Present
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 3
1939 - 2017
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 4
1939 - Present
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 5
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 6
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 7
1939 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 8
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 10
1939 - Present
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 11
1939 - Present
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 12
1939 - Present
HPI: 68.41
Rank: 13
1939 - 1992
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 14
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 15
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 6
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 7
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 8
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 9
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 10
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 11
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 12
1934 - 2018
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 13
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 14
1936 - 2018
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 15
1926 - 2018
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 16
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 17
1961 - 2018
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 18
Among people born in Israel, Amos Oz ranks 48 out of 430. Before him are Hezekiah (-800), Procopius (500), Jeroboam (-1000), Josiah (-648), Daniel Kahneman (1934), and Judas Maccabeus (-200). After him are James, son of Alphaeus (-10), Barabbas (1), Herodias (-100), Amin al-Husseini (1895), Micah (-737), and Dinah (-1700).
800 BC - 697 BC
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 42
500 - 560
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 43
1000 BC - 910 BC
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 44
648 BC - 609 BC
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 45
1934 - Present
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 46
200 BC - 160 BC
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 47
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 48
10 BC - 62
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 49
1 - 100
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 50
100 BC - 100
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 51
1895 - 1974
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 52
737 BC - 696 BC
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 53
1700 BC - 1590 BC
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 54
Among writers born in Israel, Amos Oz ranks 2. Before him are John the Evangelist (10). After him are Edward Said (1935), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), David Grossman (1954), Ghassan Kanafani (1936), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), Justus of Tiberias (35), May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Emile Habibi (1922), and Meir Shalev (1948).
10 - 100
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 1
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 2
1935 - 2003
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 3
1941 - 2008
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 4
1954 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 5
1936 - 1972
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 6
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 7
35 - 100
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 8
1886 - 1941
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 9
1951 - 2018
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 10
1922 - 1996
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 12