1938 - 2015
Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (13 January 1938 – 7 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (French: [kaby]), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cabu has received more than 178,390 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Cabu is the 38th most popular comic artist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 2,001st most popular biography from France (down from 1,721st in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Comic Artist.
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Among comic artists, Cabu ranks 38 out of 174. Before him are Guillermo Mordillo, Bill Finger, Juan Giménez, Saul Steinberg, Eiichiro Oda, and Monkey Punch. After him are Émile Cohl, Charles M. Schulz, Shotaro Ishinomori, Yoshihiro Togashi, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Hirohiko Araki.
1932 - 2019
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 32
1914 - 1974
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 33
1943 - 2020
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 34
1914 - 1999
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 35
1975 - Present
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 36
1937 - 2019
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 37
1938 - 2015
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 38
1857 - 1938
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 39
1922 - 2000
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 40
1938 - 1998
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 41
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 42
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 43
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 44
Among people born in 1938, Cabu ranks 127. Before him are Morihiro Hosokawa, Angelo Amato, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Hermann Nitsch, Patrick Bauchau, and Marien Ngouabi. After him are Aslan Abashidze, Larry Scott, Keith O'Brien, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, and Arsen Dedić. Among people deceased in 2015, Cabu ranks 94. Before him are Jenő Buzánszky, Omar Karami, Akiyuki Nosaka, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Árpád Göncz, and Adrian Frutiger. After him are John Guillermin, Chantal Akerman, Geraldine McEwan, Magali Noël, Arsen Dedić, and Tadahiko Ueda.
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 121
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 122
1938 - 2020
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 123
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 124
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 125
1938 - 1977
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 126
1938 - 2015
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 128
1938 - 2014
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 129
1938 - 2018
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 130
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 131
1938 - 1996
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 132
1938 - 2015
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 133
1925 - 2015
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 88
1934 - 2015
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 89
1930 - 2015
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 90
1937 - 2015
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 91
1922 - 2015
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 92
1928 - 2015
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 93
1938 - 2015
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 94
1925 - 2015
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 95
1950 - 2015
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 96
1932 - 2015
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 97
1931 - 2015
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 98
1938 - 2015
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 99
1947 - 2015
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 100
Among people born in France, Cabu ranks 2,001 out of 5,234. Before him are John V, Duke of Brittany (1389), Hervé (1825), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Yvan Goll (1891), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), and Jean Daniélou (1905). After him are Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), Jean Chapelain (1595), Leslie Caron (1931), and Tino Rossi (1907).
1389 - 1442
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 1,995
1825 - 1892
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 1,996
1817 - 1879
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 1,997
1891 - 1950
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 1,998
1652 - 1730
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 1,999
1905 - 1974
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 2,000
1938 - 2015
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 2,001
1540 - 1614
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 2,002
1607 - 1684
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 2,003
1807 - 1876
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 2,004
1595 - 1674
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 2,005
1931 - Present
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 2,006
1907 - 1983
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 2,007
Among comic artists born in France, Cabu ranks 5. Before him are Albert Uderzo (1927), René Goscinny (1926), Jean Giraud (1938), and Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932). After him are Émile Cohl (1857), Claire Bretécher (1940), Philippe Honoré (1941), Jacques Tardi (1946), Jacques Martin (1921), Tignous (1957), and Gotlib (1934).
1927 - 2020
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 1
1926 - 1977
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 2
1938 - 2012
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 3
1932 - Present
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 4
1938 - 2015
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 5
1857 - 1938
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 6
1940 - 2020
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 7
1941 - 2015
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 8
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 9
1921 - 2010
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 10
1957 - 2015
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 11
1934 - 2016
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 12