1936 - 1972
Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني, 8 April 1936 in Acre, Mandatory Palestine – 8 July 1972 in Beirut, Lebanon) was a Palestinian author and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ghassan Kanafani has received more than 440,483 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Ghassan Kanafani is the 1,613th most popular writer (up from 1,770th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Israel (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Israeli Writer.
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Among writers, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 1,613 out of 5,794. Before him are Bhāsa, Paul Gerhardt, Hannah Szenes, Notker the Stammerer, Josef Čapek, and Upton Sinclair. After him are Abu Tammam, Aphrahat, Vicki Baum, Alexander Polyhistor, Giorgio Bassani, and Javier Marías.
200 - 300
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,607
1607 - 1676
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 1,608
1921 - 1944
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 1,609
840 - 912
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 1,610
1887 - 1945
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 1,611
1878 - 1968
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 1,612
1936 - 1972
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 1,613
788 - 846
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 1,614
280 - 346
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 1,615
1888 - 1960
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 1,616
100 BC - 75 BC
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 1,617
1916 - 2000
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 1,618
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 1,619
Among people born in 1936, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 109. Before him are Roy Emerson, Didier Ratsiraka, Jacques Mesrine, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Ivan Stambolić, and Dyanne Thorne. After him are Nicos Poulantzas, Tuncel Kurtiz, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Leonel Sánchez, Solomon Burke, and James Mirrlees. Among people deceased in 1972, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 55. Before him are Natalie Clifford Barney, Bronislava Nijinska, Jules Romains, William Dieterle, Watchman Nee, and Martiros Saryan. After him are Mahalia Jackson, Lester B. Pearson, Eugène Tisserant, Hugo Steinhaus, Aspasia Manos, and Chen Yi.
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.21
Rank: 103
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 104
1936 - 1979
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 105
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 106
1936 - 2000
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 107
1936 - 2020
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 108
1936 - 1972
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 109
1936 - 1979
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 110
1936 - 2013
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 111
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 112
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 113
1936 - 2010
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 114
1936 - 2018
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 115
1876 - 1972
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 49
1891 - 1972
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 50
1885 - 1972
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 51
1893 - 1972
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 52
1903 - 1972
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 53
1880 - 1972
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 54
1936 - 1972
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 55
1911 - 1972
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 56
1897 - 1972
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 57
1884 - 1972
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 58
1887 - 1972
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 59
1896 - 1972
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 60
1901 - 1972
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 61
Among people born in Israel, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 145 out of 389. Before him are Henry II of Jerusalem (1271), Israel Tal (1924), Menahem Golan (1929), Aristobulus II (null), Ilan Ramon (1954), and Yaacov Agam (1928). After him are Jonathan Apphus (-200), Mariam Baouardy (1846), Shoghi Effendi (1897), Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522), Lusius Quietus (100), and A. B. Yehoshua (1936).
1271 - 1324
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 139
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 140
1929 - 2014
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 141
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 142
1954 - 2003
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 143
1928 - Present
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 144
1936 - 1972
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 145
200 BC - 143 BC
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 146
1846 - 1878
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 147
1897 - 1957
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 148
1522 - 1570
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 149
100 - 118
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 150
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 151
Among writers born in Israel, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 6. Before him are John the Evangelist (10), Amos Oz (1939), Edward Said (1935), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), and David Grossman (1954). After him are A. B. Yehoshua (1936), May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Emile Habibi (1922), Etgar Keret (1967), and Meir Shalev (1948).
10 - 100
HPI: 79.69
Rank: 1
1939 - 2018
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 2
1935 - 2003
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 3
1941 - 2008
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 4
1954 - Present
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 5
1936 - 1972
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 6
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 7
1886 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 8
1951 - 2018
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 9
1922 - 1996
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 10
1967 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 12