1868 - 1927
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1909), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Leroux has received more than 578,280 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Gaston Leroux is the 488th most popular writer (up from 558th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from France (up from 638th in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Writer.
Gaston Leroux is most famous for writing the novel "The Phantom of the Opera."
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Among writers, Gaston Leroux ranks 488 out of 5,755. Before him are Harold Pinter, Elie Wiesel, Tyrtaeus, Anthony Burgess, Baldassare Castiglione, and Robert A. Heinlein. After him are Imadaddin Nasimi, Alfred de Musset, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Robert Burns, Kurt Vonnegut, and Milena Jesenská.
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 482
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 483
700 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 484
1917 - 1993
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 485
1478 - 1529
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 486
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 487
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 488
1369 - 1417
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 489
1810 - 1857
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 490
1888 - 1964
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 491
1759 - 1796
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 492
1922 - 2007
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 493
1896 - 1944
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 494
Among people born in 1868, Gaston Leroux ranks 18. Before him are Emanuel Lasker, Arnold Sommerfeld, Peter Behrens, Robert Falcon Scott, Gertrude Bell, and Fuad I of Egypt. After him are Florence Foster Jenkins, Paul Claudel, Theodore William Richards, Dietrich Eckart, Gustav Meyrink, and Vittorio Monti. Among people deceased in 1927, Gaston Leroux ranks 9. Before him are Willem Einthoven, Ferdinand I of Romania, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Juan Gris, Carlota of Mexico, and Albrecht Kossel. After him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Andranik, Hugo Ball, Kang Youwei, Edward B. Titchener, and Georg Brandes.
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 12
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 13
1868 - 1940
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 14
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 15
1868 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 16
1868 - 1936
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 17
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 18
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 19
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 20
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 21
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 22
1868 - 1932
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 23
1868 - 1922
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 24
1860 - 1927
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 3
1865 - 1927
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 4
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 5
1887 - 1927
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 6
1840 - 1927
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 7
1853 - 1927
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 8
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 9
1855 - 1927
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 10
1865 - 1927
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 11
1886 - 1927
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 12
1858 - 1927
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 13
1867 - 1927
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 14
1842 - 1927
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 15
Among people born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 577 out of 6,011. Before him are Syagrius (430), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), François Arago (1786), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), Paul Dukas (1865), and Roger I of Sicily (1031). After him are Alaric II (458), Alfred de Musset (1810), Pierre Richard (1934), René Lacoste (1904), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), and Jacques Monod (1910).
430 - 487
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 571
1739 - 1806
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 572
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 573
1848 - 1894
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 574
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 575
1031 - 1101
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 576
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 577
458 - 507
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 578
1810 - 1857
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 579
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 580
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 581
1769 - 1851
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 582
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 583
Among writers born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 86. Before him are Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), René Guénon (1886), Jacques Hébert (1757), Boris Vian (1920), and Jules Michelet (1798). After him are Alfred de Musset (1810), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Héloïse (1101), Henri Barbusse (1873), Gérard de Nerval (1808), and Paul Claudel (1868).
1627 - 1704
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 80
1636 - 1711
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 81
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 82
1757 - 1794
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 83
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 84
1798 - 1874
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 85
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 86
1810 - 1857
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 87
1394 - 1465
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 88
1101 - 1164
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 89
1873 - 1935
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 90
1808 - 1855
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 91
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 92