125 - 170
Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Apuleius has received more than 516,184 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Apuleius is the 137th most popular writer (down from 118th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Algeria and the 2nd most popular Algerian Writer.
Apuleius is most famous for writing the novel The Golden Ass, which tells the story of a man who is turned into an ass and then transformed back into a human.
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Among writers, Apuleius ranks 137 out of 5,794. Before him are Carlo Collodi, Kālidāsa, Heinrich Böll, Boris Pasternak, Sully Prudhomme, and Günter Grass. After him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Charlotte Brontë, Eugène Ionesco, Tove Jansson, Aldous Huxley, and Haruki Murakami.
1826 - 1890
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 131
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 132
1917 - 1985
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 133
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 134
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 135
1927 - 2015
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 136
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 137
1880 - 1918
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 138
1816 - 1855
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 139
1909 - 1994
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 140
1914 - 2001
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 141
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 142
1949 - Present
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 143
Among people born in 125, Apuleius ranks 1. After him is Faustina the Younger. Among people deceased in 170, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him is Ptolemy. After him are Salvius Julianus and Junius Rusticus.
100 - 170
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 1
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 2
115 - 170
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 3
100 - 170
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 4
Among people born in Algeria, Apuleius ranks 4 out of 164. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354), Albert Camus (1913), and Yves Saint Laurent (1936). After him are Jacques Derrida (1930), Macrinus (164), Louis Althusser (1918), Saint Monica (332), Jugurtha (-160), Ahmed Ben Bella (1916), Emir Abdelkader (1808), and Édouard-Henri Avril (1849).
354 - 430
HPI: 90.32
Rank: 1
1913 - 1960
HPI: 88.59
Rank: 2
1936 - 2008
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 3
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 4
1930 - 2004
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 5
164 - 218
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 6
1918 - 1990
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 7
332 - 387
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 8
160 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 9
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 10
1808 - 1883
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 11
1849 - 1928
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Algeria, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him are Albert Camus (1913). After him are Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Assia Djebar (1936), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Robert Merle (1908), Hélène Cixous (1937), Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578).
1913 - 1960
HPI: 88.59
Rank: 1
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 2
110 - 260
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 3
1936 - 2015
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 4
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 5
1908 - 2004
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 7
1929 - 1989
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 8
1920 - 2003
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 9
1013 - 1103
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 10
1913 - 1962
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 11
1578 - 1632
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 12