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 (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), 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 497,046 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Gaston Leroux is the 558th most popular writer (down from 508th in 2019), the 639th most popular biography from France (down from 580th in 2019) and the 100th 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 558 out of 5,794. Before him are Patrick Süskind, Harriet Tubman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jacob L. Moreno, Isaac Babel, and Elie Wiesel. After him are Eyvind Johnson, Anton Makarenko, Ludwig Tieck, George R. R. Martin, Longus, and Lion Feuchtwanger.
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 552
1820 - 1913
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 553
1772 - 1834
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 554
1889 - 1974
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 555
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 556
1928 - 2016
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 557
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 558
1900 - 1976
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 559
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 560
1773 - 1853
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 561
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 562
110 - 200
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 563
1884 - 1958
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 564
Among people born in 1868, Gaston Leroux ranks 21. Before him are Peter Behrens, Robert Falcon Scott, Florence Foster Jenkins, Paul Claudel, Fuad I of Egypt, and Scott Joplin. After him are Gustav Meyrink, Edmond Rostand, Vittorio Monti, Dietrich Eckart, Felix Hoffmann, and Theodore William Richards. Among people deceased in 1927, Gaston Leroux ranks 8. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, Juan Gris, Ferdinand I of Romania, Willem Einthoven, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and Carlota of Mexico. After him are Albrecht Kossel, Jerome K. Jerome, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Hugo Ball, Andranik, and Georg Brandes.
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 15
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 16
1868 - 1944
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 17
1868 - 1955
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 18
1868 - 1936
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 19
1868 - 1917
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 20
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 21
1868 - 1932
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 22
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 23
1868 - 1922
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 24
1868 - 1923
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 25
1868 - 1946
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 26
1868 - 1928
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 27
1859 - 1927
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 2
1887 - 1927
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 3
1865 - 1927
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 4
1860 - 1927
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 5
1892 - 1927
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 6
1840 - 1927
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 7
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 8
1853 - 1927
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 9
1859 - 1927
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 10
1855 - 1927
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 11
1886 - 1927
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 12
1865 - 1927
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 13
1842 - 1927
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 639 out of 5,234. Before him are François Guizot (1787), Nicole Oresme (1323), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Lucien Febvre (1878), and Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943). After him are Michel Legrand (1932), Theuderic I (485), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Marin Marais (1656), and Oenomaus (-105).
1787 - 1874
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 633
1323 - 1382
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 634
1901 - 1985
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 635
1646 - 1708
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 636
1878 - 1956
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 637
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 638
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 639
1932 - 2019
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 640
485 - 534
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 641
1823 - 1915
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 642
1683 - 1757
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 643
1656 - 1728
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 644
105 BC - 70 BC
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 645
Among writers born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 100. Before him are Georges Perec (1936), Bernard Gui (1261), Alfred Jarry (1873), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), William of Rubruck (1220), and Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922). After him are Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Adam de la Halle (1245), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Edmond Rostand (1868), Antoine François Prévost (1697), and Pierre Loti (1850).
1936 - 1982
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 94
1261 - 1331
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 95
1873 - 1907
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 96
1524 - 1585
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 97
1220 - 1293
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 98
1922 - 2008
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 99
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 100
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 101
1245 - 1288
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 102
1741 - 1803
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 103
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 104
1697 - 1763
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 105
1850 - 1923
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 106