1862 - 1921
Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Feydeau has received more than 242,884 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Georges Feydeau is the 1,436th most popular writer (up from 1,554th in 2019), the 1,641st most popular biography from France (up from 1,725th in 2019) and the 208th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,436 out of 5,755. Before him are Maurice Barrès, Sima Xiangru, Arnold van Gennep, Dositej Obradović, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger. After him are Du Mu, Giovannino Guareschi, Heiner Müller, Evelyn Waugh, Wen Tianxiang, and Dorothy Parker.
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,430
179 BC - 117 BC
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,431
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,432
1742 - 1811
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,433
1803 - 1882
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,434
1062 - 1137
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,435
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,436
803 - 852
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 1,437
1908 - 1968
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 1,438
1929 - 1995
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 1,439
1903 - 1966
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 1,440
1236 - 1283
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 1,441
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 1,442
Among people born in 1862, Georges Feydeau ranks 37. Before him are Mori Ōgai, Edith Wharton, Siegbert Tarrasch, Aurel Stein, Silvio Gesell, and Maurice Barrès. After him are Ugyen Wangchuck, Leonid Pasternak, Théo van Rysselberghe, Vito Cascio Ferro, Mary Anderson, and Eugen Ehrlich. Among people deceased in 1921, Georges Feydeau ranks 39. Before him are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Hermann Schwarz, Subramania Bharati, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Matthias Erzberger, and Nikolay Gumilyov. After him are Živojin Mišić, Yan Fu, Lady Randolph Churchill, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Hermann Paul, and Georg Ritter von Schönerer.
1862 - 1922
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 31
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 32
1862 - 1934
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 33
1862 - 1943
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 34
1862 - 1930
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 35
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 36
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 37
1862 - 1926
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 38
1862 - 1945
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 39
1862 - 1926
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 40
1862 - 1943
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 41
1862 - 1953
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 42
1862 - 1922
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 43
1854 - 1921
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 33
1843 - 1921
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 34
1882 - 1921
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 35
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 36
1875 - 1921
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 37
1886 - 1921
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 38
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 39
1855 - 1921
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 40
1854 - 1921
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 41
1854 - 1921
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 42
1851 - 1921
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 43
1846 - 1921
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 44
1842 - 1921
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 45
Among people born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,641 out of 6,011. Before him are Maurice Barrès (1862), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700), Michel Serrault (1928), Marguerite Perey (1909), and Yo-Yo Ma (1955). After him are Charlotte Bonaparte (1802), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Carausius (300), Maurice Papon (1910), and John I, Duke of Alençon (1385).
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 1,635
1692 - 1730
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 1,636
1700 - 1761
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,637
1928 - 2007
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,638
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 1,639
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,640
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 1,641
1802 - 1839
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 1,642
1806 - 1875
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 1,643
1830 - 1889
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 1,644
300 - 293
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 1,645
1910 - 2007
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 1,646
1385 - 1415
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 1,647
Among writers born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 208. Before him are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Louise Labé (1524), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Léo Taxil (1854), and Maurice Barrès (1862). After him are Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Jean Chapelain (1595), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Michel Verne (1861), François de Malherbe (1555), and Georges Duhamel (1884).
1552 - 1630
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 202
1524 - 1566
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 203
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 204
1523 - 1596
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 205
1854 - 1907
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 206
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 207
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 208
1059 - 1127
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 209
1595 - 1674
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 210
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 211
1861 - 1925
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 212
1555 - 1628
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 213
1884 - 1966
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 214