1863 - 1933
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης [ka'vafis]; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major figure of modern Greek literature, he is sometimes considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. His works and consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important contributors not only to Greek poetry, but to Western poetry as a whole.Cavafy's poetic canon consists of 154 poems, while dozens more that remained incomplete or in sketch form weren't published until much later. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantine P. Cavafy has received more than 694,095 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Constantine P. Cavafy is the 431st most popular writer (down from 337th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 64th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Egyptian Writer.
Constantine P. Cavafy is most famous for his poem, "Ithaka."
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Among writers, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 431 out of 5,755. Before him are Phaedrus, Louis Aragon, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bohumil Hrabal, Ennius, and Louise de La Vallière. After him are Louisa May Alcott, Traudl Junge, Yunus Emre, Tennessee Williams, Patrick Modiano, and Christopher Marlowe.
20 BC - 50
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 425
1897 - 1982
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 426
1938 - 1980
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 427
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 428
239 BC - 169 BC
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 429
1644 - 1710
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 430
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 431
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 432
1920 - 2002
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 433
1240 - 1321
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 434
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 435
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 436
1564 - 1593
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 437
Among people born in 1863, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 14. Before him are Arthur Henderson, Pietro Mascagni, David Lloyd George, Henry van de Velde, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and George Herbert Mead. After him are Carlos I of Portugal, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Joaquín Sorolla, Vladimir Vernadsky, Austen Chamberlain, and Werner Sombart. Among people deceased in 1933, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 7. Before him are Li Ching-Yuen, Clara Zetkin, Calvin Coolidge, Adolf Loos, Faisal I of Iraq, and Mohammed Nadir Shah. After him are 13th Dalai Lama, John Galsworthy, Annie Besant, Sándor Ferenczi, Wilhelm Cuno, and Nikolai Yudenich.
1863 - 1935
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 8
1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 9
1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 10
1863 - 1957
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 11
1863 - 1938
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 12
1863 - 1931
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 13
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 14
1863 - 1908
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 15
1863 - 1950
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 16
1863 - 1923
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 17
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 18
1863 - 1937
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 19
1863 - 1941
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 20
1677 - 1933
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 1
1857 - 1933
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 2
1872 - 1933
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 3
1870 - 1933
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 4
1885 - 1933
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 5
1883 - 1933
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 6
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 7
1876 - 1933
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 8
1867 - 1933
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 9
1847 - 1933
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 10
1873 - 1933
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 11
1876 - 1933
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 12
1862 - 1933
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 13
Among people born in Egypt, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 78 out of 582. Before him are Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Pachomius the Great (292), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Psamtik I (-700), Lactantius (250), and Hassan al-Banna (1906). After him are Den (-3000), Isetnofret (-1250), Saint Menas (285), Mohamed Morsi (1951), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), and Saint Sarah (100).
1917 - 2012
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 72
292 - 348
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 73
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 74
700 BC - 610 BC
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 75
250 - 325
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 76
1906 - 1949
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 77
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 78
3000 BC - 2995 BC
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 79
1250 BC - Present
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 80
285 - 309
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 81
1951 - 2019
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 82
1951 - 2022
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 83
100 - 100
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 84
Among writers born in Egypt, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 7. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Sayyid Qutb (1906), Appian (95), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), and Lactantius (250). After him are Athenaeus (200), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Taha Hussein (1889), and Dionysius Thrax (-170).
1911 - 2006
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 1
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 2
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 3
95 - 165
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 4
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 5
250 - 325
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 6
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 7
200 - 223
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 8
370 - 404
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 9
500 - 500
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 10
190 - 264
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 12
170 BC - 89 BC
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 13