1812 - 1891
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (,also US: ; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, tr. Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof]; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 – 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847, also translated as A Common Story), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Goncharov has received more than 293,743 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Ivan Goncharov is the 670th most popular writer (down from 413th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Russia (down from 140th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Writer.
Ivan Goncharov is most famous for his novel "Oblomov," which tells the story of a Russian nobleman who is too lazy to do anything.
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Among writers, Ivan Goncharov ranks 670 out of 5,755. Before him are Giosuè Carducci, Nellie Bly, Vuk Karadžić, Masaru Emoto, Bernart de Ventadorn, and Giambattista Basile. After him are Antoine François Prévost, Ryszard Kapuściński, Osip Mandelstam, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Hardy, and Pierre Boulle.
1835 - 1907
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 664
1864 - 1922
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 665
1787 - 1864
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 666
1943 - 2014
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 667
1135 - 1190
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 668
1566 - 1632
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 669
1812 - 1891
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 670
1697 - 1763
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 671
1932 - 2007
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 672
1891 - 1938
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 673
1880 - 1956
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 674
1840 - 1928
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 675
1912 - 1994
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 676
Among people born in 1812, Ivan Goncharov ranks 7. Before him are Charles Dickens, Kaspar Hauser, Théodore Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Galle, Alexander Herzen, and Truganini. After him are Louise of Orléans, Moses Hess, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ascanio Sobrero, Maria Cristina of Savoy, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. Among people deceased in 1891, Ivan Goncharov ranks 15. Before him are Pedro II of Brazil, Léo Delibes, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Theo van Gogh, and Leopold Kronecker. After him are Jules Grévy, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Albert Pike, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Georges Ernest Boulanger.
1812 - 1870
HPI: 82.45
Rank: 1
1812 - 1833
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 2
1812 - 1867
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 3
1812 - 1910
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 4
1812 - 1870
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 5
1812 - 1876
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 6
1812 - 1891
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 7
1812 - 1850
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 8
1812 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 9
1812 - 1878
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 10
1812 - 1888
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 11
1812 - 1836
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 12
1812 - 1873
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 13
1825 - 1891
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 9
1836 - 1891
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 10
1850 - 1891
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 11
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 12
1857 - 1891
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 13
1823 - 1891
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 14
1812 - 1891
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 15
1807 - 1891
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 16
1822 - 1891
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 17
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 18
1831 - 1891
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 19
1820 - 1891
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 20
1837 - 1891
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 21
Among people born in Russia, Ivan Goncharov ranks 234 out of 3,262. Before him are Igor Kurchatov (1903), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), and Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851). After him are Sabina Spielrein (1885), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Oleg Antonov (1906), Alexander Luria (1902), Vasily Blyukher (1889), and Gustav Bauer (1870).
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 228
1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 229
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 230
1919 - 1983
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 231
1847 - 1909
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 232
1851 - 1926
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 233
1812 - 1891
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 234
1885 - 1942
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 235
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 236
1906 - 1984
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 237
1902 - 1977
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 238
1889 - 1938
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 239
1870 - 1944
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 240
Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Goncharov ranks 27. Before him are Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883). After him are Alexander Blok (1880), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), and Varlam Shalamov (1907).
1870 - 1953
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 21
1884 - 1937
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 22
1812 - 1870
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 23
1769 - 1844
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 24
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 25
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 26
1812 - 1891
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 27
1880 - 1921
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 28
1795 - 1829
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 29
1962 - 2006
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 30
1803 - 1873
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 31
1893 - 1984
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 32
1907 - 1982
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 33