1860 - 1904
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Chekhov has received more than 4,600,458 page views. His biography is available in 150 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Anton Chekhov is the 22nd most popular writer (down from 17th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Russia (down from 8th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Writer.
Anton Chekhov is most famous for his short stories.
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Among writers, Anton Chekhov ranks 22 out of 5,794. Before him are Albert Camus, Sophocles, Virgil, Petrarch, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Aesop. After him are Alexander Pushkin, Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, Ovid, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Ernest Hemingway.
1913 - 1960
HPI: 88.59
Rank: 16
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 88.52
Rank: 17
70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 88.35
Rank: 18
1304 - 1374
HPI: 88.25
Rank: 19
1905 - 1980
HPI: 88.19
Rank: 20
620 BC - 564 BC
HPI: 88.17
Rank: 21
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 22
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 23
1313 - 1375
HPI: 87.81
Rank: 24
1890 - 1976
HPI: 87.74
Rank: 25
43 BC - 17
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 26
1900 - 1944
HPI: 87.56
Rank: 27
1899 - 1961
HPI: 87.47
Rank: 28
Among people born in 1860, Anton Chekhov ranks 1. After him are Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Klara Hitler, Eduard Buchner, Alphonse Mucha, Isaac Albéniz, Kanō Jigorō, Raymond Poincaré, J. M. Barrie, William Jennings Bryan, and Herman Hollerith. Among people deceased in 1904, Anton Chekhov ranks 1. After him are Antonín Dvořák, Theodor Herzl, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Henry Morton Stanley, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eadweard Muybridge, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Friedrich Ratzel, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Gabriel Tarde.
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 1
1860 - 1911
HPI: 86.86
Rank: 2
1860 - 1904
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 3
1860 - 1907
HPI: 79.46
Rank: 4
1860 - 1917
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 5
1860 - 1939
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 6
1860 - 1909
HPI: 76.70
Rank: 7
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 8
1860 - 1934
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 9
1860 - 1937
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 10
1860 - 1925
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 11
1860 - 1929
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 12
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 1
1841 - 1904
HPI: 85.62
Rank: 2
1860 - 1904
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 3
1840 - 1904
HPI: 79.40
Rank: 4
1830 - 1904
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 5
1841 - 1904
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 6
1824 - 1904
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 7
1830 - 1904
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 8
1834 - 1904
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 9
1844 - 1904
HPI: 74.70
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1845 - 1904
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 11
1843 - 1904
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Anton Chekhov ranks 9 out of 2,688. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834). After him are Peter the Great (1672), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Vladimir Putin (1952), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), and Nikita Khrushchev (1894).
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 5
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 6
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 8
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 13
1530 - 1584
HPI: 86.75
Rank: 14
1894 - 1971
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 15
Among writers born in Russia, Anton Chekhov ranks 3. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821) and Leo Tolstoy (1828). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Maxim Gorky (1868), Ayn Rand (1905), Isaac Asimov (1920), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), and Boris Pasternak (1890).
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 2
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 3
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 4
1868 - 1936
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 5
1905 - 1982
HPI: 84.20
Rank: 6
1920 - 1992
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 7
1818 - 1883
HPI: 82.56
Rank: 8
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 9
1899 - 1977
HPI: 82.16
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 11
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 12