COMPANION

Gala Dalí

1894 - 1982

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Gala Dalí (born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Елена Ивановна Дьяконова; 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1894 – 10 June 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in surrealism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gala Dalí has received more than 1,546,244 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Gala Dalí is the 101st most popular companion (up from 112th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Russia (up from 167th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Companion.

Gala dalí is most famous for his surrealist paintings.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Gala Dalí ranks 101 out of 784. Before her are Caterina Sforza, Mary of Teck, Carlos, Prince of Asturias, Elizabeth Woodville, Maria Luisa of Parma, and Alexandra Feodorovna. After her are Frederica of Hanover, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Pulcheria, Adelaide of Italy, Halime Hatun, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Gala Dalí ranks 18. Before her are Jean Renoir, Norbert Wiener, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Fritz Sauckel, Joseph Roth, and Harold Macmillan. After her are Isaac Babel, Dietrich von Choltitz, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, Satyendra Nath Bose, and Heinrich Lübke. Among people deceased in 1982, Gala Dalí ranks 20. Before her are Anna Freud, Vasily Chuikov, Erving Goffman, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Louis Aragon, and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. After her are Jacques Tati, Barack Obama Sr., Karl von Frisch, Glenn Gould, Georges Perec, and Hugh Everett III.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gala Dalí ranks 148 out of 3,761. Before her are Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Mily Balakirev (1837), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Walther Funk (1890), Alexei Kosygin (1904), and Sergey Shoygu (1955). After her are Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Genrikh Yagoda (1891), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884).

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Among COMPANIONS In Russia

Among companions born in Russia, Gala Dalí ranks 2. Before her are Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795). After her are Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Natalia Pushkina (1812), Anna Demidova (1878), and Agafya Grushetskaya (1663).

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