1905 - 1976
James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.Trumbo, the other members of the Hollywood Ten, and hundreds of other professionals in the industry were blacklisted by Hollywood. He was, however, able to continue working clandestinely on major films, writing under pseudonyms or other authors' names. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dalton Trumbo has received more than 4,566,315 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Dalton Trumbo is the 1,064th most popular writer (down from 711th in 2019), the 1,211th most popular biography from United States (down from 736th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Writer.
Dalton Trumbo was a Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of writers and directors who were called before the HUAC in 1947 and questioned about their involvement with the Communist Party. Trumbo was one of the few who refused to answer any questions.
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Among writers, Dalton Trumbo ranks 1,064 out of 5,794. Before him are Joost van den Vondel, James Hadley Chase, Roger Caillois, Max Nordau, Cai Yan, and Nikolai Leskov. After him are Jan Potocki, Joan Fuster, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Arthur Hailey, and Bertran de Born.
1587 - 1679
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 1,058
1906 - 1985
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 1,059
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 1,060
1849 - 1923
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 1,061
177 - 250
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 1,062
1831 - 1895
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 1,063
1905 - 1976
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 1,064
1761 - 1815
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 1,065
1922 - 1992
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 1,066
1783 - 1872
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 1,067
1812 - 1885
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 1,068
1920 - 2004
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 1,069
1140 - 1215
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 1,070
Among people born in 1905, Dalton Trumbo ranks 42. Before him are Lale Andersen, Nevill Francis Mott, Takashi Shimura, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Carl Gustav Hempel, and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim. After him are Otto Preminger, Prince John of the United Kingdom, James J. Braddock, Barnett Newman, Sebastian Shaw, and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1976, Dalton Trumbo ranks 41. Before him are Josef Albers, René Cassin, Andrei Grechko, Lars Onsager, Yonatan Netanyahu, and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. After him are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Paul Lazarsfeld, João Goulart, Yukio Goto, Lin Yutang, and Arnold Gehlen.
1905 - 1972
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 36
1905 - 1996
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 37
1905 - 1982
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 38
1905 - 1993
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 39
1905 - 1997
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 40
1905 - 1944
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 41
1905 - 1976
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 42
1905 - 1986
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 43
1905 - 1919
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 44
1905 - 1974
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 45
1905 - 1970
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 46
1905 - 1994
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 47
1905 - 1981
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 48
1888 - 1976
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 35
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 36
1903 - 1976
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 37
1903 - 1976
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 38
1946 - 1976
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 39
1893 - 1976
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 40
1905 - 1976
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 41
1884 - 1976
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 42
1901 - 1976
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 43
1918 - 1976
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 44
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 45
1895 - 1976
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 46
1904 - 1976
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 47
Among people born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 1,211 out of 15,968. Before him are Andrew Dickson White (1832), River Phoenix (1970), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Albert Pike (1809), Nelson Goodman (1906), and Carl Reiner (1922). After him are Frank B. Kellogg (1856), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Lita Grey (1908), Bob Newhart (1929), Pat Nixon (1912), and Britney Spears (1981).
1832 - 1918
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 1,205
1970 - 1993
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 1,206
1840 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 1,207
1809 - 1891
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 1,208
1906 - 1998
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 1,209
1922 - 2020
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 1,210
1905 - 1976
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 1,211
1856 - 1937
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 1,212
1874 - 1960
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 1,213
1908 - 1995
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 1,214
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 1,215
1912 - 1993
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 1,216
1981 - Present
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 1,217
Among writers born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 123. Before him are Will Durant (1885), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Edith Wharton (1862), John Dickson Carr (1906), Fredric Brown (1906), and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840). After him are Ken Kesey (1935), John Grisham (1955), Donna Leon (1942), Valerie Solanas (1936), Virginia Henderson (1897), and Robert Sheckley (1928).
1885 - 1981
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 117
1953 - Present
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 118
1862 - 1937
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 119
1906 - 1977
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 120
1906 - 1972
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 121
1840 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 122
1905 - 1976
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 123
1935 - 2001
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 124
1955 - Present
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 125
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 126
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 127
1897 - 1996
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 128
1928 - 2005
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 129