1890 - 1960
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak]; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Pasternak has received more than 1,940,244 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Boris Pasternak is the 107th most popular writer (up from 134th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Russia (up from 47th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Writer.
Boris Pasternak is most famous for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which was published in 1957 and then banned in the Soviet Union.
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Among writers, Boris Pasternak ranks 107 out of 5,755. Before him are André Gide, Charles Bukowski, Erich Maria Remarque, Nicolas Flamel, Cato the Elder, and Anatole France. After him are Du Fu, François Rabelais, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico García Lorca, and Mary Shelley.
1869 - 1951
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 101
1920 - 1994
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 102
1898 - 1970
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 103
1330 - 1425
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 104
243 BC - 149 BC
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 105
1844 - 1924
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 106
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 107
712 - 770
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 108
1494 - 1553
HPI: 76.12
Rank: 109
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 110
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 111
1898 - 1936
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 112
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 113
Among people born in 1890, Boris Pasternak ranks 6. Before him are Agatha Christie, Charles de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Vyacheslav Molotov. After him are Friedrich Paulus, H. P. Lovecraft, Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, and Kurt Lewin. Among people deceased in 1960, Boris Pasternak ranks 2. Before him is Albert Camus. After him are Clark Gable, Erich Raeder, Melanie Klein, Albert Kesselring, Wilhelm Pieck, Max von Laue, Amanullah Khan, Walther Funk, Paula Hitler, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia.
1890 - 1976
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 1
1890 - 1970
HPI: 83.58
Rank: 2
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 3
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 4
1890 - 1986
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 5
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 6
1890 - 1957
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 7
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 8
1890 - 1918
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 9
1890 - 1938
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 10
1890 - 1946
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 11
1890 - 1947
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 12
1913 - 1960
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 1
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 2
1901 - 1960
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 3
1876 - 1960
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 4
1882 - 1960
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 5
1885 - 1960
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 6
1876 - 1960
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 7
1879 - 1960
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 8
1892 - 1960
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 9
1890 - 1960
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 10
1896 - 1960
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 11
1882 - 1960
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Boris Pasternak ranks 44 out of 3,262. Before him are Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), and Vyacheslav Molotov (1890). After him are Yul Brynner (1920), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627), and David Hilbert (1862).
1709 - 1762
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 38
1818 - 1881
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 39
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 40
1901 - 1918
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 41
1911 - 1985
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 42
1890 - 1986
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 43
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 44
1920 - 1985
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 45
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 46
1776 - 1822
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 47
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 48
1627 - 1683
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 49
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 50
Among writers born in Russia, Boris Pasternak ranks 9. Before him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Isaac Asimov (1920), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918). After him are Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), and Mikhail Sholokhov (1905).
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 3
1799 - 1837
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 4
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 5
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 6
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 7
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 8
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 9
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 11
1818 - 1883
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 12
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 13
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 14
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 15