1949 - Today
Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haruki Murakami has received more than 8,911,540 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia. Haruki Murakami is the 128th most popular writer (up from 143rd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Japan (down from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Writer.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author and translator who is most famous for his surrealist novels.
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Among writers, Haruki Murakami ranks 128 out of 5,755. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils, Matsuo Bashō, Jean Cocteau, Apuleius, H. P. Lovecraft, and Robert Louis Stevenson. After him are Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, August Strindberg, Carlo Collodi, Günter Grass, and Charles Baudelaire.
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 122
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 123
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 124
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 125
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 126
1850 - 1894
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 127
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 128
1771 - 1832
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 129
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 130
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 131
1826 - 1890
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 132
1927 - 2015
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 133
1821 - 1867
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 134
Among people born in 1949, Haruki Murakami ranks 3. Before him are Pablo Escobar and Meryl Streep. After him are Niki Lauda, António Guterres, Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Knopfler, Sigourney Weaver, Richard Gere, Arsène Wenger, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Anna Wintour.
1949 - 1993
HPI: 81.88
Rank: 1
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 3
1949 - 2019
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 4
1949 - Present
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 5
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 6
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 7
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 8
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 10
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.75
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 12 out of 6,048. Before him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Matsuo Bashō (1644). After him are Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), and Emperor Taishō (1879).
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 6
1534 - 1582
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 7
1852 - 1912
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 8
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 9
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 10
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 12
1542 - 1616
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 13
1960 - Present
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 14
1536 - 1598
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 15
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 16
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 17
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 18
Among writers born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 4. Before him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Matsuo Bashō (1644). After him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954).
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 1
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 2
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 3
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 4
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 5
1909 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 6
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 7
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 8
1935 - 2023
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 9
966 - 1025
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 10
1867 - 1916
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 12