1922 - 1969
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kerouac has received more than 7,635,393 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Kerouac is the 318th most popular writer (down from 297th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from United States (down from 261st in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Writer.
Jack Kerouac is most famous for his novel On the Road, which documents a cross-country trip he took with Neal Cassady in the late 1940s.
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Among writers, Jack Kerouac ranks 318 out of 5,755. Before him are Raymond Chandler, Paul Celan, Callimachus, Gregory of Tours, Karl May, and François Mauriac. After him are Ezra Pound, Carlos Castaneda, Georges Bataille, Arthur Schnitzler, Einhard, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 312
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 313
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 314
538 - 593
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 315
1842 - 1912
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 316
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 317
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 318
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 319
1925 - 1998
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 320
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 321
1862 - 1931
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 322
770 - 840
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 323
60 BC - 7 BC
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 324
Among people born in 1922, Jack Kerouac ranks 16. Before him are Pierre Cardin, Erich Hartmann, Franjo Tuđman, Hiroo Onoda, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Erving Goffman. After him are Emil Zátopek, Christiaan Barnard, Gérard Philipe, Imre Lakatos, Aage Bohr, and Kurt Vonnegut. Among people deceased in 1969, Jack Kerouac ranks 15. Before him are Kliment Voroshilov, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Liu Shaoqi, Brian Jones, Rocky Marciano, and Otto Stern. After him are Saud of Saudi Arabia, Morihei Ueshiba, Jan Palach, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Otto Dix, and C. F. Powell.
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 10
1922 - 1993
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 11
1922 - 1999
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 12
1922 - 2014
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 13
1922 - 2016
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 14
1922 - 1982
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 15
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 16
1922 - 2000
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 17
1922 - 2001
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 18
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 19
1922 - 1974
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 20
1922 - 2009
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 21
1922 - 2007
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 22
1881 - 1969
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 9
1886 - 1969
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 10
1898 - 1969
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 11
1942 - 1969
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 12
1923 - 1969
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 13
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 14
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 15
1902 - 1969
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 16
1883 - 1969
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 17
1948 - 1969
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 18
1885 - 1969
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 19
1891 - 1969
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 20
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 21
Among people born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 299 out of 18,182. Before him are Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Eli Wallach (1915), Billie Holiday (1915), and Lawrence Kohlberg (1927). After him are Ezra Pound (1885), Audie Murphy (1925), Martin Sheen (1940), Fred Astaire (1899), Grover Cleveland (1837), and Chuck Berry (1926).
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 293
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 294
1887 - 1986
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 295
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 296
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 297
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 298
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 299
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 300
1925 - 1971
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 301
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 302
1899 - 1987
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 303
1837 - 1908
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 304
1926 - 2017
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 305
Among writers born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 29. Before him are Coen brothers (null), Walt Whitman (1819), Henry Miller (1891), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Mario Puzo (1920), and Raymond Chandler (1888). After him are Ezra Pound (1885), Arthur Miller (1915), Louise Glück (1943), Napoleon Hill (1883), Philip Roth (1933), and O. Henry (1862).
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 23
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 24
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 25
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 26
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 27
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 28
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 29
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 30
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 31
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 32
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 33
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 34
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 35