1905 - 1976
James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter 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 alleged 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 continued 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 5,389,602 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Dalton Trumbo is the 760th most popular writer (up from 1,064th in 2019), the 889th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,210th in 2019) and the 89th 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 760 out of 5,755. Before him are Adunis, Sinclair Lewis, Agathias, Edmond de Goncourt, Douglas Adams, and Miep Gies. After him are Multatuli, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Sayat-Nova, Lawrence Durrell, Colleen McCullough, and Yanka Kupala.
1930 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 754
1885 - 1951
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 755
536 - 582
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 756
1822 - 1896
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 757
1952 - 2001
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 758
1909 - 2010
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 759
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 760
1820 - 1887
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 761
1847 - 1885
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 762
1712 - 1795
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 763
1912 - 1990
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 764
1937 - 2015
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 765
1882 - 1942
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 766
Among people born in 1905, Dalton Trumbo ranks 27. Before him are Raymond Aron, Raymond Cattell, Guillermo Stábile, Emilio Segrè, Władysław Gomułka, and Max Schmeling. After him are Franz Ziereis, Marian Rejewski, Nikolai Tikhonov, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Gerard Kuiper, and Jean Vigo. Among people deceased in 1976, Dalton Trumbo ranks 36. Before him are Josef Albers, Leopold Ružička, Lars Onsager, Émile Benveniste, Choe Yong-gon, and Juscelino Kubitschek. After him are Andrei Grechko, René Cassin, Mitsuo Fuchida, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and Silvana Armenulić.
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 21
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 22
1905 - 1966
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 23
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 24
1905 - 1982
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 25
1905 - 2005
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 26
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 27
1905 - 1945
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 28
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 29
1905 - 1997
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 30
1905 - 1944
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 31
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 32
1905 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 33
1888 - 1976
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 30
1887 - 1976
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 31
1903 - 1976
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 32
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 33
1900 - 1976
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 34
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 35
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 36
1903 - 1976
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 37
1887 - 1976
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 38
1902 - 1976
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 39
1900 - 1976
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 40
1893 - 1976
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 41
1939 - 1976
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 42
Among people born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 889 out of 18,182. Before him are Sinclair Lewis (1885), Halle Berry (1966), Little Richard (1932), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Al Jarreau (1940), and Meg Ryan (1961). After him are Leon Festinger (1919), Stephen Covey (1932), Steve Martin (1945), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Suzi Quatro (1950), and Francis Peyton Rous (1879).
1885 - 1951
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 883
1966 - Present
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 884
1932 - 2020
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 885
1917 - 2008
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 886
1940 - 2017
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 887
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 888
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 889
1919 - 1989
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 890
1932 - 2012
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 891
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 892
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 893
1950 - Present
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 894
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 895
Among writers born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 89. Before him are Louise Hay (1926), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Raymond Carver (1938), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Solomon Northup (1808), and Sinclair Lewis (1885). After him are Stephen Covey (1932), Sherwood Anderson (1876), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), John Fante (1909), Virginia Satir (1916), and Neale Donald Walsch (1943).
1926 - 2017
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 83
1911 - 1986
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 84
1938 - 1988
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 85
1927 - 2020
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 86
1808 - 1863
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 87
1885 - 1951
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 88
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 89
1932 - 2012
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 90
1876 - 1941
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 91
1864 - 1912
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 92
1909 - 1983
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 93
1916 - 1988
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 94
1943 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 95