1946 - Today
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, writer and actor. His films led to him being labeled "the first popular surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Lynch has received more than 9,914,815 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). David Lynch is the 27th most popular film director (up from 33rd in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from United States (up from 224th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Film Director.
David Lynch is most famous for his surrealist and often nightmarish films, such as Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet.
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Among film directors, David Lynch ranks 27 out of 1,580. Before him are Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Georges Méliès, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Pedro Almodóvar. After him are Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas, Ken Loach, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, and Roberto Rossellini.
1930 - Present
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 21
1941 - 2018
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 22
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 23
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 24
1912 - 2007
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 25
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 26
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 27
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 28
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 29
1936 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 30
1906 - 2002
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 31
1890 - 1976
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 32
1906 - 1977
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 33
Among people born in 1946, David Lynch ranks 14. Before him are Ted Bundy, Alan Rickman, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Demis Roussos, Patti Smith, and Gianni Versace. After him are George Best, Bon Scott, Tommy Lee Jones, Mireille Mathieu, Diane Keaton, and Charlotte Rampling.
1946 - 1989
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 8
1946 - 2016
HPI: 80.54
Rank: 9
1946 - Present
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 10
1946 - 2015
HPI: 80.04
Rank: 11
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 12
1946 - 1997
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 13
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 14
1946 - 2005
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 15
1946 - 1980
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 16
1946 - Present
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 17
1946 - Present
HPI: 77.00
Rank: 18
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 19
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 20
Among people born in United States, David Lynch ranks 191 out of 15,968. Before him are Charlton Heston (1923), Gloria Stuart (1910), Humphrey Bogart (1899), Edward Thorndike (1874), Talcott Parsons (1902), and Walt Whitman (1819). After him are Johnny Depp (1963), Edward Hopper (1882), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), and Tom Cruise (1962).
1923 - 2008
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 185
1910 - 2010
HPI: 78.65
Rank: 186
1899 - 1957
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 187
1874 - 1949
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 188
1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 189
1819 - 1892
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 190
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 191
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.49
Rank: 192
1882 - 1967
HPI: 78.48
Rank: 193
1839 - 1914
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 194
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 195
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 196
1962 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 197
Among film directors born in United States, David Lynch ranks 6. Before him are Steven Spielberg (1946), Martin Scorsese (1942), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Woody Allen (1935), and Francis Ford Coppola (1939). After him are Quentin Tarantino (1963), George Lucas (1944), Brian De Palma (1940), John Ford (1894), Sydney Pollack (1934), and Tim Burton (1958).
1946 - Present
HPI: 87.57
Rank: 1
1942 - Present
HPI: 86.49
Rank: 2
1928 - 1999
HPI: 84.93
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 4
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 5
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 6
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 8
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 9
1894 - 1973
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 10
1934 - 2008
HPI: 75.61
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 12