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Gil Vicente

1465 - 1536

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Gil Vicente (Portuguese: [ˈʒil viˈsẽtɨ]; c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gil Vicente has received more than 152,911 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Gil Vicente is the 1,494th most popular writer (up from 1,500th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 130th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Portuguese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gil Vicente ranks 1,494 out of 7,302. Before him are Lord Alfred Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, Marianne Weber, Heiner Müller, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Stéphane Hessel. After him are Robert Jordan, Salvian, B. K. S. Iyengar, Nora Roberts, Georges Duhamel, and Ibn al-Khatib.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Gil Vicente ranks 8. Before him are Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Scipione del Ferro, Kunigunde of Austria, Mehmed I Giray, Hans Holbein the Elder, and Philibert I, Duke of Savoy. After him are Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Bramantino, Konrad Peutinger, Jan Provoost, and Shō Shin. Among people deceased in 1536, Gil Vicente ranks 14. Before him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Garcilaso de la Vega, John of Leiden, Cecilia Gallerani, and George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford. After him are Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Gonzalo Guerrero, Ibn Kemal, Jacob Hutter, Felice della Rovere, and Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Gil Vicente ranks 127 out of 633. Before him are Karl Nesselrode (1780), Francisco Serrão (1500), Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (1521), João Vaz Corte-Real (1420), Gil Eanes (null), and Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (1040). After him are Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (1843), Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908), Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188), Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845), Urraca of Portugal (1150), and Francisco Craveiro Lopes (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Gil Vicente ranks 7. Before him are José Saramago (1922), Fernando Pessoa (1888), Luís de Camões (1524), Denis of Portugal (1261), José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845), and Judah Leon Abravanel (1460). After him are João de Barros (1496), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), Luís Fróis (1532), Almeida Garrett (1799), Tomé Pires (1468), and António Vieira (1608).

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