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 South Indian cinema and Bollywood. 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 3,370,905 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Girish Karnad is the 3,777th most popular actor (down from 2,137th in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from India (down from 302nd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Indian Actor.
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Among actors, Girish Karnad ranks 3,777 out of 10,030. Before him are Anna Torv, Ann Sheridan, Chace Crawford, Jason O'Mara, Jason Lee, and John Larroquette. After him are Benedicta Boccoli, So Ji-sub, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Zhao Wei, JoBeth Williams, and Joanna Pacuła.
1979 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 3,771
1915 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 3,772
1985 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 3,773
1972 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 3,774
1970 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 3,775
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 3,776
1938 - 2019
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 3,777
1966 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 3,778
1977 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 3,779
1961 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 3,780
1976 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 3,781
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 3,782
1957 - Present
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 3,783
Among people born in 1938, Girish Karnad ranks 324. Before him are Bart Berman, Gavino Ledda, Simone de Oliveira, Klaus Hänsch, Waheeda Rehman, and Marcel Artelesa. After him are Toini Gustafsson, Kito Lorenc, Stephen Breyer, Theodoros Pangalos, Nani Bregvadze, and Millie Perkins. Among people deceased in 2019, Girish Karnad ranks 286. Before him are José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Martin Peters, Jed Allan, Carol Lynley, Babiker Awadalla, and Göran Malmqvist. After him are Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Kornel Morawiecki, Med Hondo, Marlen Khutsiev, Cameron Boyce, and Ellen Schwiers.
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 318
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 319
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 320
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 321
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 322
1938 - 2016
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 323
1938 - 2019
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 324
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 325
1938 - 2017
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 326
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 327
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 328
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 329
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 330
1926 - 2019
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 280
1943 - 2019
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 281
1935 - 2019
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 282
1942 - 2019
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 283
1917 - 2019
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 284
1924 - 2019
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 285
1938 - 2019
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 286
1951 - 2019
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 287
1941 - 2019
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 288
1936 - 2019
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 289
1925 - 2019
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 290
1999 - 2019
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 291
1930 - 2019
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 292
Among people born in India, Girish Karnad ranks 454 out of 1,227. Before him are Jayalalithaa (1948), Ibn Warraq (1946), Sunny Deol (1956), Prince Vijaya (-543), Waheeda Rehman (1938), and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893). After him are Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Bhupen Hazarika (1926), Derek Prince (1915), Meira Kumar (1945), Launceston Elliot (1874), and Phoolan Devi (1963).
1948 - 2016
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 448
1946 - Present
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 449
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 450
543 BC - 504 BC
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 451
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 452
1893 - 1972
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 453
1938 - 2019
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 454
1922 - 2011
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 455
1926 - 2011
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 456
1915 - 2003
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 457
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 458
1874 - 1930
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 459
1963 - 2001
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 460
Among actors born in India, Girish Karnad ranks 49. Before him are Preity Zinta (1975), Madhuri Dixit (1967), Sabu Dastagir (1924), Suriya (1975), Sunny Deol (1956), and Waheeda Rehman (1938). After him are Bhupen Hazarika (1926), Om Puri (1950), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Tiger Shroff (1990), Devika Rani (1908), and Anupam Kher (1955).
1975 - Present
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 43
1967 - Present
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 44
1924 - 1963
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 45
1975 - Present
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 46
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 47
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 48
1938 - 2019
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 49
1926 - 2011
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 50
1950 - 2017
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 51
1936 - Present
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 52
1990 - Present
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 53
1908 - 1994
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 54
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 55