1889 - 1973
Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term philosophy of existence or neo-Socrateanism to define his own thought. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Marcel has received more than 420,674 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Gabriel Marcel is the 201st most popular philosopher (up from 212th in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from France (up from 488th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Philosopher.
Gabriel Marcel was a philosopher, theologian, and dramatist. He is most famous for his philosophy of "Existentialism," which is the idea that people are free to make their own choices and are responsible for the consequences of those choices.
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Among philosophers, Gabriel Marcel ranks 201 out of 1,081. Before him are Marquis de Condorcet, Georgi Plekhanov, George Herbert Mead, Paulo Freire, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and Apollonius of Tyana. After him are Diogenes of Apollonia, Al-Ash'ari, Rudolf Carnap, Jean-François Lyotard, Moses Mendelssohn, and Julia Kristeva.
1743 - 1794
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 195
1856 - 1918
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 196
1863 - 1931
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 197
1921 - 1997
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 198
1714 - 1780
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 199
15 - 100
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 200
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 201
460 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 202
873 - 936
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 203
1891 - 1970
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 204
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 205
1729 - 1786
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 206
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 207
Among people born in 1889, Gabriel Marcel ranks 17. Before him are Ante Pavelić, Vaslav Nijinsky, Idris of Libya, Manuel II of Portugal, Igor Sikorsky, and Otto Frank. After him are Carl von Ossietzky, Paul Karrer, Louise Mountbatten, Gabriela Mistral, Han van Meegeren, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Among people deceased in 1973, Gabriel Marcel ranks 24. Before him are Abebe Bikila, Paavo Nurmi, Max Horkheimer, Anna Magnani, Henri Charrière, and Pablo Casals. After him are Ferdinand Schörner, Semyon Budyonny, Víctor Jara, J. Hans D. Jensen, Ragnar Frisch, and Jacques Maritain.
1889 - 1959
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 11
1889 - 1950
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 12
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 13
1889 - 1932
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 14
1889 - 1972
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 15
1889 - 1980
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 16
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 17
1889 - 1938
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 18
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 19
1889 - 1965
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 20
1889 - 1957
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 21
1889 - 1947
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 22
1889 - 1968
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 23
1932 - 1973
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 18
1897 - 1973
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 19
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 20
1908 - 1973
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 21
1906 - 1973
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 22
1876 - 1973
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 23
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 24
1892 - 1973
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 25
1883 - 1973
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 26
1932 - 1973
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 27
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 28
1895 - 1973
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 29
1882 - 1973
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 30
Among people born in France, Gabriel Marcel ranks 467 out of 6,011. Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Roger Vadim (1928), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Paul Bocuse (1926), and Camille Desmoulins (1760). After him are Charles Messier (1730), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747).
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 461
1928 - 2000
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 462
1760 - 1797
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 463
1901 - 1985
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 464
1926 - 2018
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 465
1760 - 1794
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 466
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 467
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 468
1924 - 2014
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 469
1928 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 470
1727 - 1781
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 471
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 472
1747 - 1793
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 473
Among philosophers born in France, Gabriel Marcel ranks 28. Before him are Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714). After him are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Guy Debord (1931), François Fénelon (1651), and Jacques Maritain (1882).
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 22
1647 - 1706
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 23
1638 - 1715
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 24
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 25
1743 - 1794
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 26
1714 - 1780
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 27
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 28
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 29
1753 - 1821
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 30
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 31
1931 - 1994
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 32
1651 - 1715
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 33
1882 - 1973
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 34