1920 - 1959
Boris Vian (French: [bɔʁis vjɑ̃]; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. Today he is remembered primarily for his novels. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Vian has received more than 388,797 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Boris Vian is the 487th most popular writer (down from 459th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from France (down from 526th in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Writer.
Boris Vian is most famous for his novel "L'Écume des jours" (1947), which was translated into English as "Froth on the Daydream" and was made into a film by Michel Gondry in 2001.
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Among writers, Boris Vian ranks 487 out of 5,794. Before him are Saul Bellow, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Athenaeus, Zecharia Sitchin, and Sidney Sheldon. After him are Mary Higgins Clark, Erich Kästner, Jean Paul, Washington Irving, Saint-John Perse, and Robert A. Heinlein.
1915 - 2005
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 481
1709 - 1784
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 482
1713 - 1768
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 483
200 - 223
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 484
1920 - 2010
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 485
1917 - 2007
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 486
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 487
1927 - 2020
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 488
1899 - 1974
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 489
1763 - 1825
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 490
1783 - 1859
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 491
1887 - 1975
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 492
1907 - 1988
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 493
Among people born in 1920, Boris Vian ranks 20. Before him are Juan Antonio Samaranch, Montgomery Clift, Éric Rohmer, Gianni Rodari, Traudl Junge, and Zecharia Sitchin. After him are Frank Herbert, Melina Mercouri, Amália Rodrigues, John Demjanjuk, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Richard von Weizsäcker. Among people deceased in 1959, Boris Vian ranks 10. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Stepan Bandera, Raymond Chandler, Owen Willans Richardson, Gérard Philipe, and Errol Flynn. After him are Camilo Cienfuegos, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Billie Holiday, George Grosz, Shirō Ishii, and Adolf Windaus.
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 14
1920 - 1966
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 15
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 16
1920 - 1980
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 17
1920 - 2002
HPI: 75.33
Rank: 18
1920 - 2010
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 19
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 20
1920 - 1986
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 21
1920 - 1994
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 22
1920 - 1999
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 23
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 24
1920 - 1975
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 25
1920 - 2015
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 26
1869 - 1959
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 4
1909 - 1959
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 5
1888 - 1959
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 6
1879 - 1959
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 7
1922 - 1959
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 8
1909 - 1959
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 9
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 10
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 11
1887 - 1959
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 12
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 13
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 14
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 15
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 16
Among people born in France, Boris Vian ranks 550 out of 5,234. Before him are Gérard de Nerval (1808), Brigitte Macron (1953), Anaïs Nin (1903), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Charles II of Navarre (1332). After him are William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071), Suger (1080), Carloman I (751), Alain Resnais (1922), Karl Brandt (1904), and Luc Besson (1959).
1808 - 1855
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 544
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 545
1903 - 1977
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 546
1383 - 1451
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 547
1752 - 1833
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 548
1332 - 1387
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 549
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 550
1071 - 1127
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 551
1080 - 1151
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 552
751 - 771
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 553
1922 - 2014
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 554
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 555
1959 - Present
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 556
Among writers born in France, Boris Vian ranks 86. Before him are Henri Barbusse (1873), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Louis Aragon (1897), Gérard de Nerval (1808), and Anaïs Nin (1903). After him are Jules Michelet (1798), George Steiner (1929), Héloïse (1101), Camille Flammarion (1842), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), and René Guénon (1886).
1873 - 1935
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 80
1848 - 1907
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 81
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 82
1897 - 1982
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 83
1808 - 1855
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 84
1903 - 1977
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 85
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 86
1798 - 1874
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 87
1929 - 2020
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 88
1101 - 1164
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 89
1842 - 1925
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 90
1394 - 1465
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 91
1886 - 1951
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 92