1919 - 2013
Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederik Pohl has received more than 499,908 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Frederik Pohl is the 1,857th most popular writer (down from 1,663rd in 2019), the 2,389th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,086th in 2019) and the 221st most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Frederik Pohl ranks 1,857 out of 5,755. Before him are Anthony Trollope, Uri Avnery, Charles Maturin, Menander Protector, Naftali Herz Imber, and Herman J. Mankiewicz. After him are Oswald von Wolkenstein, Aristeas, Daṇḍin, Yvan Goll, Michel Zevaco, and Juan Carlos Onetti.
1815 - 1882
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 1,851
1923 - 2018
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 1,852
1780 - 1824
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 1,853
550 - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 1,854
1856 - 1909
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 1,855
1897 - 1953
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 1,856
1919 - 2013
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 1,857
1377 - 1445
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 1,858
600 BC - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 1,859
501 - 700
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 1,860
1891 - 1950
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 1,861
1860 - 1918
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 1,862
1909 - 1994
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 1,863
Among people born in 1919, Frederik Pohl ranks 79. Before him are Merce Cunningham, Licio Gelli, Joe Weider, George Wallace, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Abdel Hakim Amer. After him are Christoph Probst, Rubén González, Joop den Uyl, P. F. Strawson, Ginette Neveu, and Margaret Burbidge. Among people deceased in 2013, Frederik Pohl ranks 109. Before him are Seki Matsunaga, Ray Harryhausen, Alvin Lee, Van Cliburn, Conrad Bain, and Otto Sander. After him are Ali Kafi, Rossana Podestà, Eleanor Parker, Masao Uchino, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, and Sergei Belov.
1919 - 2009
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 73
1919 - 2015
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 74
1919 - 2013
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 75
1919 - 1998
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 76
1919 - 2021
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 77
1919 - 1967
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 78
1919 - 2013
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 79
1919 - 1943
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 80
1919 - 2003
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 81
1919 - 1987
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 82
1919 - 2006
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 83
1919 - 1949
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 84
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 85
1928 - 2013
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 103
1920 - 2013
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 104
1944 - 2013
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 105
1934 - 2013
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 106
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 107
1941 - 2013
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 108
1919 - 2013
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 109
1928 - 2013
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 110
1934 - 2013
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 111
1922 - 2013
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 112
1934 - 2013
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 113
1920 - 2013
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 114
1944 - 2013
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 115
Among people born in United States, Frederik Pohl ranks 2,389 out of 18,182. Before him are Thomas Gordon (1918), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Fredric March (1897), Joe Perry (1950), Brion James (1945), and Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897). After him are Randy Newman (1943), Ric Flair (1949), Maria Bello (1967), Donna Karan (1948), Erin Brockovich (1960), and Lionel Barrymore (1878).
1918 - 2002
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 2,383
1886 - 1950
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,384
1897 - 1975
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,385
1950 - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,386
1945 - 1999
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,387
1897 - 1953
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,388
1919 - 2013
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,389
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,390
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,391
1967 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,392
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,393
1960 - Present
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 2,394
1878 - 1954
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 2,395
Among writers born in United States, Frederik Pohl ranks 221. Before him are Bernard Malamud (1914), Robert Silverberg (1935), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Maria Shriver (1955), and Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897). After him are Bob Woodward (1943), Alex Haley (1921), Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), Kathy Reichs (1948), Nora Ephron (1941), and Ross Macdonald (1915).
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 215
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 216
1933 - 2008
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 217
1903 - 1968
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 218
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 219
1897 - 1953
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 220
1919 - 2013
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 221
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 222
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 223
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 224
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 225
1941 - 2012
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 226
1915 - 1983
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 227