1943 - Today
Elena Ferrante (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛːlena ferˈrante]) is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elena Ferrante has received more than 3,449,870 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Elena Ferrante is the 421st most popular writer (down from 313th in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from Italy (down from 406th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Italian Writer.
Elena Ferrante is most famous for her Neapolitan Novels, which are a series of four novels that tell the story of two friends, Elena and Lila, who grow up in Naples, Italy.
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Among writers, Elena Ferrante ranks 421 out of 5,755. Before her are Julio Cortázar, Tibullus, Karl Barth, Joseph Brodsky, Zecharia Sitchin, and George Eliot. After her are G. K. Chesterton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jami, Phaedrus, Louis Aragon, and Vladimir Vysotsky.
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 415
50 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 416
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 417
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 418
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 419
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 420
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 421
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 422
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 423
1414 - 1492
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 424
20 BC - 50
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 425
1897 - 1982
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 426
1938 - 1980
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 427
Among people born in 1943, Elena Ferrante ranks 28. Before her are Joseph Stiglitz, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Christopher Walken, Tarja Halonen, Howard Gardner, and Horst Köhler. After her are Salvatore Adamo, Raffaella Carrà, Malcolm McDowell, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-Jacques Annaud, and David Cronenberg.
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 22
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 23
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 24
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 25
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 26
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 27
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 28
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 29
1943 - 2021
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 30
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 31
1943 - 2017
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 32
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 33
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 34
Among people born in Italy, Elena Ferrante ranks 541 out of 4,668. Before her are Pope Stephen VIII (900), Gianni Rodari (1920), Lavinia Fontana (1552), Beatrice Portinari (1265), Tibullus (-50), and Rodolfo Graziani (1882). After her are Marsilius of Padua (1275), Octavia the Younger (-69), Pope John XIV (1000), Cosima Wagner (1837), Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), and Dominic Savio (1842).
900 - 942
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 535
1920 - 1980
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 536
1552 - 1614
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 537
1265 - 1290
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 538
50 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 539
1882 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 540
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 541
1275 - 1342
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 542
69 BC - 11 BC
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 543
1000 - 984
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 544
1837 - 1930
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 545
1746 - 1826
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 546
1842 - 1857
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 547
Among writers born in Italy, Elena Ferrante ranks 35. Before her are Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), Cornelius Nepos (-100), Pietro Aretino (1492), Propertius (-50), and Tibullus (-50). After her are Ennius (-239), Livius Andronicus (-280), Grazia Deledda (1871), Statius (40), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896).
1474 - 1533
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 29
1846 - 1908
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 30
100 BC - 25 BC
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 31
1492 - 1556
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 32
50 BC - 14 BC
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 33
50 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 34
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 35
239 BC - 169 BC
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 36
280 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 37
1871 - 1936
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 38
40 - 96
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 39
1478 - 1529
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 40
1896 - 1957
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 41