1909 - 1997
Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy. Born in Riga (now the capital of Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1909, he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of six, where he witnessed the revolutions of 1917. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaiah Berlin has received more than 1,097,194 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Isaiah Berlin is the 244th most popular philosopher (down from 235th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Philosopher.
Isaiah Berlin is most famous for his essay "Two Concepts of Liberty."
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Among philosophers, Isaiah Berlin ranks 244 out of 1,089. Before him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Guy Debord, Iamblichus, Milarepa, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Jacques Maritain. After him are Hans Jonas, Orosius, Apollodorus of Athens, Nicole Oresme, Ibn al-Nafis, and Julius Evola.
1512 - 1609
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 238
1931 - 1994
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 239
245 - 330
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 240
1052 - 1135
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 241
1874 - 1948
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 242
1882 - 1973
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 243
1909 - 1997
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 244
1903 - 1993
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 245
375 - 420
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 246
180 BC - 110 BC
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 247
1323 - 1382
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 248
1212 - 1289
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 249
1898 - 1974
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 250
Among people born in 1909, Isaiah Berlin ranks 16. Before him are U Thant, Osamu Dazai, Elia Kazan, Errol Flynn, Li Xiannian, and Benny Goodman. After him are Mohammed V of Morocco, Ernst Gombrich, Victor Borge, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Talal of Jordan, and Nicholas Winton. Among people deceased in 1997, Isaiah Berlin ranks 22. Before him are Paulo Freire, The Notorious B.I.G., William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Bảo Đại, and Bohumil Hrabal. After him are Clyde Tombaugh, Fred Zinnemann, Dora Maar, Melvin Calvin, Robert Mitchum, and Aldo Rossi.
1909 - 1974
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 10
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 11
1909 - 2003
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 12
1909 - 1959
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 13
1909 - 1992
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 14
1909 - 1986
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 15
1909 - 1997
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 16
1909 - 1961
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 17
1909 - 2001
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 18
1909 - 2000
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 19
1909 - 1978
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 20
1909 - 1972
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 21
1909 - 2015
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 22
1921 - 1997
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 16
1972 - 1997
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 17
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 18
1926 - 1997
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 19
1913 - 1997
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 20
1914 - 1997
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 21
1909 - 1997
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 22
1906 - 1997
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 23
1907 - 1997
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 24
1907 - 1997
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 25
1911 - 1997
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 26
1917 - 1997
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 27
1931 - 1997
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 28
Among people born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 5 out of 242. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mikhail Tal (1936), and Mark Rothko (1903). After him are Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Jānis Lūsis (1939), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Mariss Jansons (1943), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), and Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948).
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 1
1853 - 1932
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 2
1936 - 1992
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 3
1903 - 1970
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 4
1909 - 1997
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 5
1761 - 1818
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 6
1939 - 2020
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 7
1882 - 1950
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 8
1943 - 2019
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 9
1877 - 1942
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 12
Among philosophers born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 1. After him are Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), and Nikolay Lossky (1870).
1909 - 1997
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 1
1882 - 1950
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 2
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 3
1903 - 1994
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 4
1870 - 1965
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 5