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 567,088 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Apuleius is the 125th most popular writer (up from 137th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Algeria (up from 4th in 2019) 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 125 out of 5,755. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Verlaine, Alexandre Dumas fils, Matsuo Bashō, and Jean Cocteau. After him are H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Haruki Murakami, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, and August Strindberg.
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 119
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 120
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 121
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 122
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 123
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 124
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 125
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 126
1850 - 1894
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 127
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 128
1771 - 1832
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 129
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 130
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 131
Among people born in 125, Apuleius ranks 1. After him are Faustina the Younger and Polycrates of Ephesus. Among people deceased in 170, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him is Ptolemy. After him are Salvius Julianus and Junius Rusticus.
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 1
125 - 175
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 2
125 - 196
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 3
100 - 170
HPI: 85.61
Rank: 1
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 2
115 - 170
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 3
100 - 170
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 4
Among people born in Algeria, Apuleius ranks 3 out of 184. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354) and Albert Camus (1913). After him are Tariq ibn Ziyad (670), Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Jacques Derrida (1930), Macrinus (164), Louis Althusser (1918), Jugurtha (-160), Saint Monica (332), Ahmed Ben Bella (1916), and Emir Abdelkader (1808).
354 - 430
HPI: 87.39
Rank: 1
1913 - 1960
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 2
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 3
670 - 720
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 4
1936 - 2008
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 5
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 6
164 - 218
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 7
1918 - 1990
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 8
160 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 9
332 - 387
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 10
1916 - 2012
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 11
1808 - 1883
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Algeria, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him are Albert Camus (1913). After him are Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), Assia Djebar (1936), Hélène Cixous (1937), Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578).
1913 - 1960
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 1
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 2
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 3
110 - 260
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 4
1908 - 2004
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 5
1936 - 2015
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 7
1929 - 1989
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 8
1920 - 2003
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 9
1013 - 1103
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 10
1913 - 1962
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 11
1578 - 1632
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 12