1923 - 2019
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Zeffirelli has received more than 1,845,747 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Franco Zeffirelli is the 69th most popular film director (down from 55th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from Italy (down from 510th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Film Director.
Franco Zeffirelli is most famous for his work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and La Traviata.
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Among film directors, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 69 out of 1,581. Before him are Agnès Varda, Claude Chabrol, Richard Attenborough, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, and Jean-Jacques Annaud. After him are David Cronenberg, Chuck Jones, F. W. Murnau, Frank Capra, John Huston, and Costa-Gavras.
1928 - 2019
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 63
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 64
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 65
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 66
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 67
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 68
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 69
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 70
1912 - 2002
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 71
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 72
1897 - 1991
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 73
1906 - 1987
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 74
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 75
Among people born in 1923, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 19. Before him are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Italo Calvino, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Carroll Shelby, György Ligeti, and Richard Attenborough. After him are Alan Shepard, Mas Oyama, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Lichtenstein, Yma Sumac, and Jack Kilby. Among people deceased in 2019, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 15. Before him are Robert Forster, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Mohamed Morsi, Agnès Varda, Alexei Leonov, and Anna Karina. After him are Karel Gott, Jeffrey Epstein, I. M. Pei, Immanuel Wallerstein, Kary Mullis, and Marie Fredriksson.
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 13
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 14
1923 - 1970
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 15
1923 - 2012
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 16
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 17
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 18
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 19
1923 - 1998
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 20
1923 - 1994
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 21
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 22
1923 - 1997
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 23
1923 - 2008
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 24
1923 - 2005
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 25
1941 - 2019
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 9
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 10
1951 - 2019
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 11
1928 - 2019
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 12
1934 - 2019
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 13
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 14
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 15
1939 - 2019
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 16
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 17
1917 - 2019
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 18
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 19
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 20
1958 - 2019
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 21
Among people born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 590 out of 4,668. Before him are Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (1479), Lucullus (-118), Umberto Nobile (1885), Grazia Deledda (1871), Kurt Schuschnigg (1897), and Pope Silverius (490). After him are Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Maria Luisa of Spain (1745), Statius (40), Pope Stephen I (200), and Damocles (null).
1479 - 1516
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 584
118 BC - 56 BC
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 585
1885 - 1978
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 586
1871 - 1936
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 587
1897 - 1977
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 588
490 - 538
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 589
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 590
1510 - 1537
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 591
1046 - 1115
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 592
1745 - 1792
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 593
40 - 96
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 594
200 - 257
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 595
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 596
Among film directors born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 10. Before him are Sergio Leone (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Vittorio De Sica (1901), and Tinto Brass (1933). After him are Frank Capra (1897), Dario Argento (1940), Lina Wertmüller (1928), Ettore Scola (1931), Sergio Corbucci (1926), and Dino Risi (1916).
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 4
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 5
1912 - 2007
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 6
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 7
1901 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 8
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 9
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 10
1897 - 1991
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 12
1928 - 2021
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 13
1931 - 2016
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 14
1926 - 1990
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 15
1916 - 2008
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 16