1928 - 2016
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel ( EL-ee vee-ZEL or EE-ly VEE-səl; Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicaragua's Miskito people.He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elie Wiesel has received more than 5,736,294 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Elie Wiesel is the 481st most popular writer (up from 557th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Romania (up from 29th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Writer.
Elie Wiesel is most famous for his book Night, which is about his experience in the Holocaust.
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Among writers, Elie Wiesel ranks 481 out of 5,755. Before him are William S. Burroughs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, D. H. Lawrence, Statius, Ellen G. White, and Harold Pinter. After him are Tyrtaeus, Anthony Burgess, Baldassare Castiglione, Robert A. Heinlein, Gaston Leroux, and Imadaddin Nasimi.
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 475
1804 - 1864
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 476
1885 - 1930
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 477
40 - 96
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 478
1827 - 1915
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 479
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 480
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 481
700 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 482
1917 - 1993
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 483
1478 - 1529
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 484
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 485
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 486
1369 - 1417
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 487
Among people born in 1928, Elie Wiesel ranks 29. Before him are Alvin Toffler, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Agnès Varda, Alexander Grothendieck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Kim Yong-nam. After him are George Peppard, James Coburn, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Martin Landau, Alberto Korda, and Martin Cooper. Among people deceased in 2016, Elie Wiesel ranks 25. Before him are George Michael, Abbas Kiarostami, Carlos Alberto Torres, Jerome Bruner, João Havelange, and Alvin Toffler. After him are Prince, Harper Lee, Pierre Boulez, John Glenn, Andrzej Żuławski, and Carrie Fisher.
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 23
1928 - 2000
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 24
1928 - 2019
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 25
1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 26
1928 - 2007
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 27
1928 - Present
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 28
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 29
1928 - 1994
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 30
1928 - 2002
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 31
1928 - 2014
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 32
1928 - 2017
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 33
1928 - 2001
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 34
1928 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 35
1963 - 2016
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 19
1940 - 2016
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 20
1944 - 2016
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 21
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 22
1916 - 2016
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 23
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 24
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 25
1958 - 2016
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 26
1926 - 2016
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 27
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 28
1921 - 2016
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 29
1940 - 2016
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 30
1956 - 2016
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 31
Among people born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 28 out of 665. Before him are Herta Müller (1953), Ion Iliescu (1930), Mircea Lucescu (1945), György Ligeti (1923), Theodoric I (393), and Nadia Comăneci (1961). After him are Iannis Xenakis (1922), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), Michael the Brave (1558), Mihai Eminescu (1850), and Jacob L. Moreno (1889).
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 22
1930 - Present
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 23
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 24
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 25
393 - 451
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 26
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 27
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 28
1922 - 2001
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 29
1901 - 1965
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 30
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 31
1558 - 1601
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 32
1850 - 1889
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 33
1889 - 1974
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 34
Among writers born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 5. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), and Herta Müller (1953). After him are Mihai Eminescu (1850), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), and Károly Kerényi (1897).
1909 - 1994
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 1
1896 - 1963
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 2
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 3
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 4
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 5
1850 - 1889
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 6
1889 - 1974
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 7
1673 - 1723
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 8
1884 - 1935
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 9
1742 - 1811
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 10
1837 - 1889
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 11
1897 - 1973
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 12