1895 - 1974
Béla Illés (Born: Béla Lipner from Kassa, Austria-Hungary; now Košice, Slovakia), March 22, 1895 – Budapest, January 5, 1974) was a Hungarian left-wing writer and journalist who spent much of his life in exile in the Soviet Union. In the now communist Hungary, he was not particularly appreciated by the Minister of Culture, József Révai, nor by György Lukács. However, he was used as a writer of the mass articles glorifying the communist system and the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Illés has received more than 30,381 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Béla Illés is the 4,719th most popular writer (down from 4,274th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 140th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Slovak Writer.
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Among writers, Béla Illés ranks 4,719 out of 5,755. Before him are Julia Ward Howe, Daniel Pearl, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Jorge Edwards, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, and Joanna Russ. After him are Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Henry Roth, Teresa de la Parra, Imants Ziedonis, Wilferd Madelung, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
1819 - 1910
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 4,713
1963 - 2002
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 4,714
1860 - 1930
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 4,715
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 4,716
1942 - 2011
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 4,717
1937 - 2011
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 4,718
1895 - 1974
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 4,719
1890 - Present
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 4,720
1906 - 1995
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 4,721
1889 - 1936
HPI: 46.21
Rank: 4,722
1933 - 2013
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 4,723
1930 - 2023
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 4,724
1949 - Present
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 4,725
Among people born in 1895, Béla Illés ranks 206. Before him are Eduard Bagritsky, Louis Raymond, Busby Berkeley, Andreas Alföldi, Johann Nepomuk David, and Vilho Tuulos. After him are H. A. R. Gibb, Eugene Bullard, Fedor Ozep, José Bergamín, Leo Ornstein, and Karel Koželuh. Among people deceased in 1974, Béla Illés ranks 174. Before him are Betty Compson, Margit Slachta, Kostas Varnalis, Bobby Timmons, Sergey Urusevsky, and Gheorghe Albu. After him are Konrad Frey, Jacqueline Susann, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Gerhard Lamprecht, Matilde Hidalgo, and Fernand de Montigny.
1895 - 1934
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 200
1895 - 1962
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 201
1895 - 1976
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 202
1895 - 1981
HPI: 46.45
Rank: 203
1895 - 1977
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 204
1895 - 1967
HPI: 46.25
Rank: 205
1895 - 1974
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 206
1895 - 1971
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 207
1895 - 1961
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 208
1895 - 1949
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 209
1895 - 1983
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 210
1895 - 2002
HPI: 45.75
Rank: 211
1895 - 1950
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 212
1897 - 1974
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 168
1884 - 1974
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 169
1884 - 1974
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 170
1935 - 1974
HPI: 46.56
Rank: 171
1908 - 1974
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 172
1909 - 1974
HPI: 46.41
Rank: 173
1895 - 1974
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 174
1909 - 1974
HPI: 46.21
Rank: 175
1918 - 1974
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 176
1900 - 1974
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 177
1897 - 1974
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 178
1889 - 1974
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 179
1885 - 1974
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 180
Among people born in Slovakia, Béla Illés ranks 162 out of 357. Before him are Albín Brunovský (1935), Margit Slachta (1884), Štefan Uher (1930), Jozef Móder (1947), Ján Zachara (1928), and Janko Jesenský (1874). After him are Jozef Čapkovič (1948), Viktor Madarász (1830), Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Jozef Moravčík (1945), Ladislav Petráš (1946), and Ján Švehlík (1950).
1935 - 1997
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 156
1884 - 1974
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 157
1930 - 1993
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 158
1947 - Present
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 159
1928 - Present
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 160
1874 - 1945
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 161
1895 - 1974
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 162
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 163
1830 - 1917
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 164
1947 - 2020
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 165
1945 - Present
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 166
1946 - Present
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 167
1950 - Present
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 168
Among writers born in Slovakia, Béla Illés ranks 17. Before him are Janko Matúška (1821), Lajos Kassák (1887), Janko Kráľ (1822), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Martin Kukučín (1860), and Samo Chalupka (1812). After him are Margita Figuli (1909), Milan Rúfus (1928), and Peter Pišťanek (1960).
1821 - 1877
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 11
1887 - 1967
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 12
1822 - 1876
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 13
1820 - 1872
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 14
1860 - 1928
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 15
1812 - 1883
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 16
1895 - 1974
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 17
1909 - 1995
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 18
1928 - 2009
HPI: 44.83
Rank: 19
1960 - 2015
HPI: 36.06
Rank: 20