1972 - 2015
Avijit Roy (Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona (Free-minded), an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Avijit Roy has received more than 248,007 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Avijit Roy is the 6,338th most popular writer (down from 5,492nd in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 40th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.
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Among writers, Avijit Roy ranks 6,338 out of 5,755. Before him are Rebecca Walker, Al Roker, Lucía Puenzo, Justin Knapp, Vicenç Pagès, and Maria Parr. After him are Mamunul Haque, Bryan Konietzko, Elena Milashina, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Arno Geiger, and Judith Schalansky.
1969 - Present
HPI: 32.08
Rank: 6,332
1954 - Present
HPI: 32.08
Rank: 6,333
1976 - Present
HPI: 32.03
Rank: 6,334
1982 - Present
HPI: 32.01
Rank: 6,335
1963 - 2022
HPI: 31.97
Rank: 6,336
1981 - Present
HPI: 31.94
Rank: 6,337
1972 - 2015
HPI: 31.93
Rank: 6,338
1973 - Present
HPI: 31.90
Rank: 6,339
1975 - Present
HPI: 31.84
Rank: 6,340
1978 - Present
HPI: 31.80
Rank: 6,341
1991 - Present
HPI: 31.76
Rank: 6,342
1968 - Present
HPI: 31.74
Rank: 6,343
1980 - Present
HPI: 31.74
Rank: 6,344
Among people born in 1972, Avijit Roy ranks 739. Before him are José Vicente García, Naoki Mori, Katarína Hasprová, Sergejs Žoltoks, Lee Eun-kyung, and Anderson Luis da Silva. After him are Lisa Ray, Brigid Brannagh, Kate Ashfield, Daima Beltrán, Akira Ito, and Ill Bill. Among people deceased in 2015, Avijit Roy ranks 506. Before him are Olene Walker, Perro Aguayo Jr., Howard Davis Jr., Alexis Vastine, Annarita Sidoti, and Richard Meade. After him are Charles Kennedy, Márton Fülöp, Jerome Kersey, Olga Syahputra, Windell Middlebrooks, and Sergey Sharikov.
1972 - Present
HPI: 32.02
Rank: 733
1972 - Present
HPI: 32.00
Rank: 734
1972 - Present
HPI: 32.00
Rank: 735
1972 - 2004
HPI: 31.99
Rank: 736
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.99
Rank: 737
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.95
Rank: 738
1972 - 2015
HPI: 31.93
Rank: 739
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.91
Rank: 740
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.90
Rank: 741
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.89
Rank: 742
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.89
Rank: 743
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.85
Rank: 744
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.81
Rank: 745
1930 - 2015
HPI: 33.57
Rank: 500
1979 - 2015
HPI: 33.53
Rank: 501
1956 - 2015
HPI: 33.40
Rank: 502
1986 - 2015
HPI: 33.04
Rank: 503
1969 - 2015
HPI: 32.11
Rank: 504
1938 - 2015
HPI: 32.09
Rank: 505
1972 - 2015
HPI: 31.93
Rank: 506
1959 - 2015
HPI: 31.71
Rank: 507
1983 - 2015
HPI: 30.98
Rank: 508
1962 - 2015
HPI: 30.81
Rank: 509
1983 - 2015
HPI: 30.77
Rank: 510
1979 - 2015
HPI: 30.44
Rank: 511
1974 - 2015
HPI: 30.19
Rank: 512
Among people born in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy ranks 52 out of 57. Before him are Geeta Dutt (1930), Bimal Roy (1909), Irene Khan (1956), Runa Laila (1952), A. B. Bardhan (1924), and Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (1966). After him are Mamunul Haque (1973), Monica Ali (1967), Shakib Al Hasan (1987), Mashrafe Mortaza (1983), and Mushfiqur Rahim (1987).
1930 - 1972
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 46
1909 - 1966
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 47
1956 - Present
HPI: 39.24
Rank: 48
1952 - Present
HPI: 38.98
Rank: 49
1924 - 2016
HPI: 37.06
Rank: 50
1966 - Present
HPI: 35.79
Rank: 51
1972 - 2015
HPI: 31.93
Rank: 52
1973 - Present
HPI: 31.90
Rank: 53
1967 - Present
HPI: 29.95
Rank: 54
1987 - Present
HPI: 26.41
Rank: 55
1983 - Present
HPI: 25.14
Rank: 56
1987 - Present
HPI: 21.42
Rank: 57
Among writers born in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy ranks 5. Before him are Sri Chinmoy (1931), Begum Rokeya (1880), Mahasweta Devi (1926), and Taslima Nasrin (1962). After him are Mamunul Haque (1973) and Monica Ali (1967).
1931 - 2007
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 1
1880 - 1932
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 2
1926 - 2016
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 3
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 4
1972 - 2015
HPI: 31.93
Rank: 5
1973 - Present
HPI: 31.90
Rank: 6
1967 - Present
HPI: 29.95
Rank: 7