1938 - 2019
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Girish Karnad has received more than 4,093,669 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Girish Karnad is the 1,139th most popular actor (up from 3,777th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from India (up from 454th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Actor.
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Among actors, Girish Karnad ranks 1,139 out of 9,996. Before him are Renée Simonot, Gunnel Lindblom, Ted Danson, Michael Ironside, Yevgeny Leonov, and Al Lettieri. After him are Soad Hosny, Kemal Sunal, Kurt Gerron, Mercedes McCambridge, Louise Brooks, and John Barrymore.
1911 - 2021
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 1,133
1931 - 2021
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 1,134
1947 - Present
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 1,135
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 1,136
1926 - 1994
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 1,137
1928 - 1975
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 1,138
1938 - 2019
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 1,139
1943 - 2001
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,140
1944 - 2000
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,141
1897 - 1944
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,142
1916 - 2004
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,143
1906 - 1985
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,144
1882 - 1942
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,145
Among people born in 1938, Girish Karnad ranks 111. Before him are Tereza Kesovija, Ted Turner, Cabu, Ryōji Noyori, Guy Roux, and Keith O'Brien. After him are Morihiro Hosokawa, Lill-Babs, Willy Claes, Radivoj Korać, Heino, and Robert Smithson. Among people deceased in 2019, Girish Karnad ranks 93. Before him are Ginger Baker, Nuon Chea, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Nikolai Kardashev, Felice Gimondi, and Peter Lindbergh. After him are Köbi Kuhn, Paul Badura-Skoda, Frank Lucas, Robert Frank, Machiko Kyō, and Šaban Šaulić.
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 105
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 106
1938 - 2015
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 107
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 108
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 109
1938 - 2018
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 110
1938 - 2019
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 111
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 112
1938 - 2018
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 113
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 114
1938 - 1969
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 115
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 116
1938 - 1973
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 117
1939 - 2019
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 87
1926 - 2019
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 88
1947 - 2019
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 89
1932 - 2019
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 90
1942 - 2019
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 91
1944 - 2019
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 92
1938 - 2019
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 93
1943 - 2019
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 94
1927 - 2019
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 95
1930 - 2019
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 96
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 97
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 98
1951 - 2019
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 99
Among people born in India, Girish Karnad ranks 186 out of 1,493. Before him are Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Deepak Chopra (1946), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Abdul Karim (1863), Salim Ali (1896), and Lakshmi Mittal (1950). After him are Motilal Nehru (1861), Narayana Guru (1855), Dignāga (480), Shantanu (null), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), and Nana Sahib (1824).
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 180
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 181
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 182
1863 - 1909
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 183
1896 - 1987
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 184
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 185
1938 - 2019
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 186
1861 - 1931
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 187
1855 - 1928
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 188
480 - 540
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 189
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 190
1879 - 1973
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 191
1824 - 1859
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 192
Among actors born in India, Girish Karnad ranks 7. Before him are Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Vivien Leigh (1913), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Julie Christie (1940), Aishwarya Rai (1973), and Salman Khan (1965). After him are Ajay Devgn (1969), Dharmendra (1935), Shilpa Shetty (1975), Amrish Puri (1932), Hema Malini (1948), and Aamir Khan (1965).
1942 - Present
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 1
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 2
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 3
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 4
1973 - Present
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 5
1965 - Present
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 6
1938 - 2019
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 7
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 9
1975 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 10
1932 - 2005
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 12
1965 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 13