1925 - 1995
Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( də-LOOZ, French: [ʒil dəløz]; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus.An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of other philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bergson, with particular influence derived from Spinoza. A. W. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilles Deleuze has received more than 2,647,782 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Gilles Deleuze is the 112th most popular philosopher (down from 104th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from France (down from 214th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Philosopher.
Gilles Deleuze is a French philosopher, who is most famous for his work on the philosophy of language and post-structuralism.
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Among philosophers, Gilles Deleuze ranks 112 out of 1,081. Before him are Joseph Priestley, Friedrich Fröbel, Philo, Pyrrho, Meister Eckhart, and Charles Fourier. After him are John Venn, Bodhidharma, Al-Tabari, George Gurdjieff, Emil Cioran, and Johann Friedrich Herbart.
1733 - 1804
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 106
1782 - 1852
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 107
15 BC - 45
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 108
365 BC - 275 BC
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 109
1260 - 1328
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 110
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 111
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 112
1834 - 1923
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 113
483 - 540
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 114
839 - 923
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 115
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 116
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 117
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 118
Among people born in 1925, Gilles Deleuze ranks 9. Before him are Richard Burton, Pol Pot, Yukio Mishima, Mikis Theodorakis, Paul Newman, and Albert Bandura. After him are Patrice Lumumba, Zygmunt Bauman, Alija Izetbegović, Mahathir Mohamad, Robert F. Kennedy, and Tony Curtis. Among people deceased in 1995, Gilles Deleuze ranks 2. Before him is Yitzhak Rabin. After him are Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Harold Wilson, Emmanuel Levinas, Michael Ende, Eugene Wigner, Konrad Zuse, Gunnar Nordahl, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Mikhail Botvinnik.
1925 - 1984
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 3
1925 - 1998
HPI: 78.53
Rank: 4
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 5
1925 - 2021
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 6
1925 - 2008
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 7
1925 - 2021
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 8
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 9
1925 - 1961
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 10
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 11
1925 - 2003
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 12
1925 - Present
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 13
1925 - 1968
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 14
1925 - 2010
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 15
1922 - 1995
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 1
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 2
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 3
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 4
1916 - 1995
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 5
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 6
1929 - 1995
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 7
1902 - 1995
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 8
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 9
1921 - 1995
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 10
1931 - 1995
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 11
1911 - 1995
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Gilles Deleuze ranks 223 out of 6,011. Before him are François Hollande (1954), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Philip V of France (1293), Francis de Sales (1567), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Pope Urban VI (1318), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Philip III of France (1245), Charlotte Corday (1768), and Pope Leo IX (1002).
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 217
1635 - 1719
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 218
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 219
1293 - 1322
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 220
1567 - 1622
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 221
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 222
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 223
1318 - 1389
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 224
1768 - 1848
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 225
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 226
1245 - 1285
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 227
1768 - 1793
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 228
1002 - 1054
HPI: 72.80
Rank: 229
Among philosophers born in France, Gilles Deleuze ranks 13. Before him are Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Simone Weil (1909), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean Buridan (1295), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709).
1079 - 1142
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 7
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 10
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 12
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 13
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 15
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 16
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 17
1295 - 1361
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 18
1709 - 1751
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 19