1917 - 1994
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kirby has received more than 7,136,757 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jack Kirby is the 14th most popular comic artist, the 1,037th most popular biography from United States (down from 946th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Comic Artist.
Jack Kirby is most famous for his work on Marvel Comics. He was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor best known for his co-creations of Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk.
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Among comic artists, Jack Kirby ranks 14 out of 174. Before him are Carl Barks, Akira Toriyama, Peyo, Hugo Pratt, Matt Groening, and Zdeněk Miler. After him are Bob Kane, Morris, Tsugumi Ohba, Rumiko Takahashi, Go Nagai, and Steve Ditko.
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 9
1928 - 1992
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 10
1927 - 1995
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 12
1921 - 2011
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 13
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 14
1915 - 1998
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 15
1923 - 2001
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 16
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 17
1957 - Present
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 18
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 19
1927 - 2018
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1917, Jack Kirby ranks 48. Before him are Fernando Rey, Herbert A. Hauptman, Mel Ferrer, Ko Arima, Andrew Huxley, and John Kendrew. After him are Leonid Hurwicz, Violeta Parra, Maurice Duverger, Rodney Robert Porter, Dinu Lipatti, and Leonora Carrington. Among people deceased in 1994, Jack Kirby ranks 49. Before him are Jeffrey Dahmer, Pujie, Jessica Tandy, Niels Kaj Jerne, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Sergei Bondarchuk. After him are Roland Ratzenberger, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Julian Schwinger, Matt Busby, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Roberto Eduardo Viola.
1917 - 1994
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 42
1917 - 2011
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 43
1917 - 2008
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 44
1917 - Present
HPI: 62.03
Rank: 45
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 46
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 47
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 48
1917 - 2008
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 49
1917 - 1967
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 50
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 51
1917 - 1985
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 52
1917 - 1950
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 53
1917 - 2011
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 54
1960 - 1994
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 43
1907 - 1994
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 44
1909 - 1994
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 45
1911 - 1994
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 46
1910 - 1994
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 47
1920 - 1994
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 48
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 49
1960 - 1994
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 50
1914 - 1994
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 51
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 52
1909 - 1994
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 53
1902 - 1994
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 54
1924 - 1994
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 55
Among people born in United States, Jack Kirby ranks 1,037 out of 18,182. Before him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Robert Wise (1914), Larry King (1933), Edna Purviance (1895), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), and Renée Zellweger (1969). After him are Sarah Jessica Parker (1965), Ronald Dworkin (1931), John McCarthy (1927), Harry Markowitz (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), and John Vincent Atanasoff (1903).
1834 - 1903
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 1,031
1914 - 2005
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 1,032
1933 - 2021
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 1,033
1895 - 1958
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 1,034
1916 - 2009
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 1,035
1969 - Present
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 1,036
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 1,037
1965 - Present
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 1,038
1931 - 2013
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 1,039
1927 - 2011
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 1,040
1927 - Present
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 1,041
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 1,042
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 1,043
Among comic artists born in United States, Jack Kirby ranks 5. Before him are Stan Lee (1922), Joseph Barbera (1911), Carl Barks (1901), and Matt Groening (1954). After him are Bob Kane (1915), Steve Ditko (1927), Winsor McCay (1867), Will Eisner (1917), Don Rosa (1951), Bill Finger (1914), and Charles M. Schulz (1922).
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 1
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 2
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 3
1954 - Present
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 4
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 5
1915 - 1998
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 6
1927 - 2018
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 7
1867 - 1934
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 8
1917 - 2005
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 9
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 10
1914 - 1974
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 11
1922 - 2000
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 12