1868 - 1918
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: , US: , French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Rostand has received more than 277,600 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Edmond Rostand is the 608th most popular writer (up from 662nd in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from France (up from 727th in 2019) and the 104th most popular French Writer.
Edmond Rostand is most famous for writing Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Among writers, Edmond Rostand ranks 608 out of 5,794. Before him are Juan Ramón Jiménez, Bai Juyi, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Stieg Larsson, Karl Kraus, and Alessandro Manzoni. After him are Klaus Mann, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alfred Döblin, Osip Mandelstam, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and Patricia Highsmith.
1881 - 1958
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 602
772 - 846
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 603
64 BC - 17
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 604
1954 - 2004
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 605
1874 - 1936
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 606
1785 - 1873
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 607
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 608
1906 - 1949
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 609
1899 - 1974
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 610
1878 - 1957
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 611
1891 - 1938
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 612
900 - 960
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 613
1921 - 1995
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 614
Among people born in 1868, Edmond Rostand ranks 23. Before him are Florence Foster Jenkins, Paul Claudel, Fuad I of Egypt, Scott Joplin, Gaston Leroux, and Gustav Meyrink. After him are Vittorio Monti, Dietrich Eckart, Felix Hoffmann, Theodore William Richards, Huo Yuanjia, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Among people deceased in 1918, Edmond Rostand ranks 28. Before him are Georgi Plekhanov, César Cui, Lavr Kornilov, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Roland Garros, and Fanny Kaplan. After him are Ferdinand Hodler, Niko Pirosmani, Frank Wedekind, Arrigo Boito, Hermann Cohen, and Frederick Trump.
1868 - 1944
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 17
1868 - 1955
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 18
1868 - 1936
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 19
1868 - 1917
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 20
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 21
1868 - 1932
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 22
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 23
1868 - 1922
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 24
1868 - 1923
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 25
1868 - 1946
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 26
1868 - 1928
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 27
1868 - 1910
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 28
1868 - 1928
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 29
1856 - 1918
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 22
1835 - 1918
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 23
1870 - 1918
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 24
1864 - 1918
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 25
1888 - 1918
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 26
1890 - 1918
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 27
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 28
1853 - 1918
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 29
1862 - 1918
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 30
1864 - 1918
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 31
1842 - 1918
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 32
1842 - 1918
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 33
1869 - 1918
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 34
Among people born in France, Edmond Rostand ranks 683 out of 5,234. Before him are Éliphas Lévi (1810), Louis Malle (1932), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Claude of France (1547), France Gall (1947), and Clotilde (475). After him are Robert Bresson (1901), Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), Catherine of Valois (1401), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), René Clair (1898), and Chlodomer (495).
1810 - 1875
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 677
1932 - 1995
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 678
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 679
1547 - 1575
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 680
1947 - 2018
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 681
475 - 545
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 682
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 683
1901 - 1999
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 684
1484 - 1506
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 685
1401 - 1437
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 686
1847 - 1923
HPI: 73.23
Rank: 687
1898 - 1981
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 688
495 - 524
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 689
Among writers born in France, Edmond Rostand ranks 104. Before him are William of Rubruck (1220), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Gaston Leroux (1868), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Adam de la Halle (1245), and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741). After him are Antoine François Prévost (1697), Pierre Loti (1850), Eugène Sue (1804), Raymond Queneau (1903), Ausonius (310), and Jean Froissart (1337).
1220 - 1293
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 98
1922 - 2008
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 99
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 100
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 101
1245 - 1288
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 102
1741 - 1803
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 103
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 104
1697 - 1763
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 105
1850 - 1923
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 106
1804 - 1857
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 107
1903 - 1976
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 108
310 - 395
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 109
1337 - 1405
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 110