1935 - 1967
Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Forough Farrokhzad has received more than 362,664 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Forough Farrokhzad is the 1,219th most popular writer (up from 1,238th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Iran (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Iranian Writer.
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Among writers, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 1,219 out of 5,755. Before her are Vivant Denon, Chernorizets Hrabar, Giovanni Papini, Betty Friedan, Jeffery Deaver, and Jussi Adler-Olsen. After her are Alexander Kielland, Ján Kollár, Cornelius Gallus, Carson McCullers, Victorien Sardou, and Antipater of Sidon.
1747 - 1825
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 1,213
890 - 950
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 1,214
1881 - 1956
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 1,215
1921 - 2006
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 1,216
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 1,217
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 1,218
1935 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 1,219
1849 - 1906
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 1,220
1793 - 1852
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 1,221
69 BC - 26 BC
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 1,222
1917 - 1967
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 1,223
1831 - 1908
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 1,224
200 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 1,225
Among people born in 1935, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 60. Before her are Lorenzo Bandini, Toni Sailer, Pranab Mukherjee, Pepe, Richard Kuklinski, and Gnassingbé Eyadéma. After her are Viktor Bryukhanov, John Saxon, Akira Kitaguchi, Maj Sjöwall, Elsa Martinelli, and John G. Avildsen. Among people deceased in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 51. Before her are Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Lorenzo Bandini, Tamara Bunke, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, and Gus Grissom. After her are Carson McCullers, Hugo Gernsback, Luigi Tenco, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Ed White, and Zinaida Serebriakova.
1935 - 1967
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 54
1935 - 2009
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 55
1935 - 2020
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 56
1935 - Present
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 57
1935 - 2006
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 58
1935 - 2005
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 59
1935 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 60
1935 - 2021
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 61
1935 - 2020
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 62
1935 - Present
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 63
1935 - 2020
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 64
1935 - 2017
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 65
1935 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 66
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 45
1935 - 1967
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 46
1937 - 1967
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 47
1907 - 1967
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 48
1909 - 1967
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 49
1926 - 1967
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 50
1935 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 51
1917 - 1967
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 52
1884 - 1967
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 53
1938 - 1967
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 54
1890 - 1967
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 55
1930 - 1967
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 56
1884 - 1967
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 57
Among people born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 146 out of 528. Before her are Sibawayh (760), Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226), Osroes I (50), Harpagus (-700), Al-Bayhaqi (994), and Al-Karaji (953). After her are Barbet Schroeder (1941), Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203), Phraates V (-100), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Musa al-Sadr (1928), and Jaʻfar ibn Yahya (767).
760 - 797
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 140
1226 - 1283
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 141
50 - 129
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 142
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 143
994 - 1066
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 144
953 - 1029
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 145
1935 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 146
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 147
1203 - 1283
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 148
100 BC - 4
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 149
960 - 1036
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 150
1928 - 1978
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 151
767 - 803
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 152
Among writers born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 15. Before her are Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ali Shariati (1933), and Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724). After her are Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Táhirih (1817), Baba Tahir (947), Daqiqi (1000), and Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281).
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 9
1414 - 1492
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 10
1145 - 1220
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 11
1733 - 1807
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 12
1933 - 1977
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 13
724 - 756
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 14
1935 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 15
1543 - 1603
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 16
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 17
1817 - 1852
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 18
947 - 1032
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 19
1000 - 977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1281 - 1349
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 21