1894 - 1940
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, IPA: [ˈbabʲɪlʲ]; 13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Babel has received more than 398,862 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Isaac Babel is the 556th most popular writer (up from 611th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 69th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Writer.
Isaac Babel is most famous for his short stories, which are written in the Russian language.
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Among writers, Isaac Babel ranks 556 out of 5,794. Before him are Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tyrtaeus, Patrick Süskind, Harriet Tubman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Jacob L. Moreno. After him are Elie Wiesel, Gaston Leroux, Eyvind Johnson, Anton Makarenko, Ludwig Tieck, and George R. R. Martin.
1922 - 2008
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 550
700 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 551
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 552
1820 - 1913
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 553
1772 - 1834
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 554
1889 - 1974
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 555
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 556
1928 - 2016
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 557
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 558
1900 - 1976
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 559
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 560
1773 - 1853
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 561
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 562
Among people born in 1894, Isaac Babel ranks 21. Before him are Harold Macmillan, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Kinsey, Gala Dalí, Moshe Sharett, and Dietrich von Choltitz. After him are Martha Graham, Benjamin Graham, Hermann Oberth, Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Nebe, and Pyotr Kapitsa. Among people deceased in 1940, Isaac Babel ranks 18. Before him are Peter Behrens, Carl Bosch, Gerda Wegener, Manuel Azaña, Arthur Harden, and Spyridon Louis. After him are Wladimir Köppen, Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Italo Balbo, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.
1894 - 1986
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 15
1894 - 1946
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 16
1894 - 1956
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 17
1894 - 1982
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 18
1894 - 1965
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 19
1894 - 1966
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 20
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 21
1894 - 1991
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 22
1894 - 1976
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 23
1894 - 1989
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 24
1894 - 1961
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 25
1894 - 1945
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 26
1894 - 1984
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 27
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 12
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 13
1886 - 1940
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 14
1880 - 1940
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 15
1865 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 16
1873 - 1940
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 17
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 18
1846 - 1940
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 19
1859 - 1940
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 20
1880 - 1940
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 21
1896 - 1940
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 22
1857 - 1940
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 23
1860 - 1940
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 24
Among people born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 55 out of 913. Before him are Moshe Sharett (1894), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Levi Eshkol (1895), and Nikolai Berdyaev (1874). After him are Symon Petliura (1879), Anton Makarenko (1888), John Demjanjuk (1920), Oleg Antonov (1906), Fanny Kaplan (1890), and Rodion Malinovsky (1898).
1894 - 1965
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 49
1053 - 1125
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 50
1938 - Present
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 51
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 52
1895 - 1969
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 53
1874 - 1948
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 54
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 55
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 56
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 57
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 58
1906 - 1984
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 59
1890 - 1918
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 60
1898 - 1967
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 61
Among writers born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 13. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Joseph Roth (1894), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), and Vasily Grossman (1905). After him are Anton Makarenko (1888), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Clarice Lispector (1920), and Ivan Franko (1856).
1836 - 1895
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 8
1859 - 1916
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 9
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 10
1891 - 1967
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 11
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 12
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 13
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 14
1880 - 1940
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 15
1903 - 1942
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 16
1871 - 1913
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 17
1920 - 1977
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 18
1856 - 1916
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 19