1944 - Today
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, and Industrial Light & Magic. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Lucas has received more than 12,035,188 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). George Lucas is the 29th most popular film director (down from 28th in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from United States (down from 189th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Film Director.
George Lucas is most famous for creating the Star Wars franchise.
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Among film directors, George Lucas ranks 29 out of 1,580. Before him are Georges Méliès, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pedro Almodóvar, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino. After him are Ken Loach, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Roberto Rossellini, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Wim Wenders.
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 23
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 24
1912 - 2007
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 25
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 26
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 27
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 28
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 29
1936 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 30
1906 - 2002
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 31
1890 - 1976
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 32
1906 - 1977
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 33
1941 - 1996
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 34
1945 - Present
HPI: 76.90
Rank: 35
Among people born in 1944, George Lucas ranks 5. Before him are Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Ban Ki-moon, and Gerhard Schröder. After him are Jeff Beck, Barry White, Joe Cocker, Miloš Zeman, Jimmy Page, Rutger Hauer, and Alexander Van der Bellen.
1944 - Present
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 1
1944 - Present
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 2
1944 - Present
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 3
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.89
Rank: 4
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 5
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 6
1944 - 2003
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 7
1944 - 2014
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 10
1944 - 2019
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 11
1944 - Present
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, George Lucas ranks 198 out of 15,968. Before him are Johnny Depp (1963), Edward Hopper (1882), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), and Tom Cruise (1962). After him are Orson Welles (1915), Denzel Washington (1954), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Emily Dickinson (1830), B. F. Skinner (1904), and Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866).
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.49
Rank: 192
1882 - 1967
HPI: 78.48
Rank: 193
1839 - 1914
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 194
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 195
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 196
1962 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 197
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 198
1915 - 1985
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 199
1954 - Present
HPI: 78.32
Rank: 200
1948 - Present
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 201
1830 - 1886
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 202
1904 - 1990
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 203
1866 - 1945
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 204
Among film directors born in United States, George Lucas ranks 8. Before him are Martin Scorsese (1942), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Woody Allen (1935), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), David Lynch (1946), and Quentin Tarantino (1963). After him are Brian De Palma (1940), John Ford (1894), Sydney Pollack (1934), Tim Burton (1958), Chuck Jones (1912), and Terry Gilliam (1940).
1942 - Present
HPI: 86.49
Rank: 2
1928 - 1999
HPI: 84.93
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 4
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 5
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 6
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 8
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 9
1894 - 1973
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 10
1934 - 2008
HPI: 75.61
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 12
1912 - 2002
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 13
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 14