354 - 430
Augustine of Hippo ( aw-GUST-in, US also AW-gə-steen; Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustine of Hippo has received more than 10,362,967 page views. His biography is available in 144 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 137 in 2019). Augustine of Hippo is the 15th most popular philosopher (down from 12th in 2019), the most popular biography from Algeria and the most popular Algerian Philosopher.
Augustine of Hippo is most famous for his conversion to Christianity and his writings on the subject.
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Among philosophers, Augustine of Hippo ranks 15 out of 1,081. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Avicenna, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Francis Bacon. After him are Thales of Miletus, Thomas Aquinas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, and Democritus.
1712 - 1778
HPI: 89.83
Rank: 9
980 - 1037
HPI: 89.56
Rank: 10
1632 - 1704
HPI: 88.31
Rank: 11
1469 - 1527
HPI: 88.12
Rank: 12
1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 13
1561 - 1626
HPI: 87.67
Rank: 14
354 - 430
HPI: 87.39
Rank: 15
623 BC - 546 BC
HPI: 87.23
Rank: 16
1225 - 1274
HPI: 87.11
Rank: 17
1770 - 1831
HPI: 85.96
Rank: 18
1689 - 1755
HPI: 85.71
Rank: 19
1588 - 1679
HPI: 84.85
Rank: 20
460 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 84.79
Rank: 21
Among people born in 354, Augustine of Hippo ranks 1. After him are Paulinus of Nola and Arsenius the Great. Among people deceased in 430, Augustine of Hippo ranks 1. After him are Macrobius, Octar, Honoratus, and Saint Aurelius.
354 - 430
HPI: 87.39
Rank: 1
354 - 431
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 2
354 - 449
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 3
354 - 430
HPI: 87.39
Rank: 1
370 - 430
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 2
350 - 430
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 3
365 - 430
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 4
301 - 430
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 5
Among people born in Algeria, Augustine of Hippo ranks 1 out of 184. After him are Albert Camus (1913), Apuleius (125), 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
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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 philosophers born in Algeria, Augustine of Hippo ranks 1. After him are Jacques Derrida (1930), Louis Althusser (1918), Jacques Rancière (1940), Martianus Capella (360), Marcus Cornelius Fronto (100), Priscian (500), and Émile Boirac (1851).
354 - 430
HPI: 87.39
Rank: 1
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 2
1918 - 1990
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 3
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 4
360 - 428
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 5
100 - 160
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 6
500 - 600
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 7
1851 - 1917
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 8