1948 - Today
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Simmons has received more than 1,208,472 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Dan Simmons is the 1,201st most popular writer (up from 1,273rd in 2019), the 1,405th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,445th in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Writer.
Dan Simmons is most famous for his novel Hyperion, which won the Hugo and Locus Awards.
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Among writers, Dan Simmons ranks 1,201 out of 5,794. Before him are Kurt Tucholsky, Sylvia Browne, Yeghishe Charents, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Carson McCullers, and Samuel Butler. After him are Paul Scarron, Gabriele Amorth, Ján Kollár, Vladimir Korolenko, Antoine-Henri Jomini, and Rigas Feraios.
1890 - 1935
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 1,195
1936 - 2013
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 1,196
1897 - 1937
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 1,197
1873 - 1934
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 1,198
1917 - 1967
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 1,199
1612 - 1680
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 1,200
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 1,201
1610 - 1660
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 1,202
1925 - 2016
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 1,203
1793 - 1852
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 1,204
1853 - 1921
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 1,205
1779 - 1869
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 1,206
1757 - 1798
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 1,207
Among people born in 1948, Dan Simmons ranks 65. Before him are Elizabeth Blackburn, Tom Wilkinson, Agnieszka Holland, Arie Haan, Alan Parsons, and Svetlana Savitskaya. After him are Michel Suleiman, Dominique Sanda, Rudolf Schenker, Jerzy Kukuczka, Pim Fortuyn, and James Ellroy.
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 59
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 60
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 61
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 62
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 64
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 65
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 66
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 67
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 68
1948 - 1989
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 69
1948 - 2002
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 70
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 71
Among people born in United States, Dan Simmons ranks 1,405 out of 15,968. Before him are Jaco Pastorius (1951), Robert Patrick (1958), Edward Snowden (1983), Ansel Adams (1902), Lenny Kravitz (1964), and David O. Selznick (1902). After him are Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Mike Portnoy (1967), Snoop Dogg (1971), Diane Arbus (1923), Mark Ruffalo (1967), and Walter Bradford Cannon (1871).
1951 - 1987
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 1,399
1958 - Present
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 1,400
1983 - Present
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 1,401
1902 - 1984
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 1,402
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 1,403
1902 - 1965
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 1,404
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 1,405
1941 - 2002
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 1,406
1967 - Present
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 1,407
1971 - Present
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 1,408
1923 - 1971
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 1,409
1967 - Present
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 1,410
1871 - 1945
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 1,411
Among writers born in United States, Dan Simmons ranks 144. Before him are Harry Harrison (1925), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Joyce Carol Oates (1938), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Sylvia Browne (1936), and Carson McCullers (1917). After him are Robert Bloch (1917), Jeffery Deaver (1950), William Styron (1925), Norman Mailer (1923), Tom Wolfe (1930), and James Oliver Curwood (1878).
1925 - 2012
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 138
1956 - 2018
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 139
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 140
1908 - 1998
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 141
1936 - 2013
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 142
1917 - 1967
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 143
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 144
1917 - 1994
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 145
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 146
1925 - 2006
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 147
1923 - 2007
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 148
1930 - 2018
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 149
1878 - 1927
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 150