1926 - 2017
John Peter Berger ( BUR-jər; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Berger has received more than 1,109,948 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). John Berger is the 1,197th most popular writer (up from 1,211th in 2019), the 949th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 952nd in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Writer.
John Berger is most famous for his art criticism and his novels.
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Among writers, John Berger ranks 1,197 out of 5,755. Before him are Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Paul Bourget, Roger Caillois, Gabriele Amorth, Claudio Magris, and Max Nordau. After him are Khaqani, Dan Simmons, David Grossman, Shammai, Dean Koontz, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec.
1711 - 1780
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 1,191
1852 - 1935
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 1,192
1913 - 1978
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 1,193
1925 - 2016
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1,194
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,195
1849 - 1923
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,196
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,197
1126 - 1199
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 1,198
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 1,199
1954 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 1,200
50 BC - 30
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 1,201
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 1,202
1909 - 1966
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 1,203
Among people born in 1926, John Berger ranks 77. Before him are Gyula Grosics, Henry Way Kendall, Jean-Pierre Serre, Masatoshi Koshiba, Alan Greenspan, and Andrew Schally. After him are Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Gus Grissom, Jorge Medina, Poul Anderson, James Stirling, and László Papp. Among people deceased in 2017, John Berger ranks 69. Before him are Michael Nyqvist, Abdul Halim of Kedah, John Heard, Hans Rosling, Piet Keizer, and Roger Ailes. After him are Jake LaMotta, Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Chris Cornell, Albert Speer, and Fats Domino.
1926 - 2014
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 71
1926 - 1999
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 72
1926 - Present
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 73
1926 - 2020
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 74
1926 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 75
1926 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 76
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 77
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 78
1926 - 1967
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 79
1926 - 2021
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 80
1926 - 2001
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 81
1926 - 1992
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 82
1926 - 2003
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 83
1960 - 2017
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 63
1927 - 2017
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 64
1946 - 2017
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 65
1948 - 2017
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 66
1943 - 2017
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 67
1940 - 2017
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 68
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 69
1922 - 2017
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 70
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 71
1918 - 2017
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 72
1964 - 2017
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 73
1934 - 2017
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 74
1928 - 2017
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 75
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Berger ranks 949 out of 7,765. Before him are Susan Boyle (1961), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Simon Cowell (1959), Thomas De Quincey (1785), Anne Hyde (1637), and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (1982). After him are John Hawkwood (1320), Michael Palin (1943), Ian McDiarmid (1944), Ron Dennis (1947), Michael Smith (1932), and William Bligh (1754).
1961 - Present
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 943
1952 - 1952
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 944
1959 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 945
1785 - 1859
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 946
1637 - 1671
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 947
1982 - Present
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 948
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 949
1320 - 1394
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 950
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 951
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 952
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 953
1932 - 2000
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 954
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 955
Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Berger ranks 113. Before him are Thomas Chatterton (1752), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), and Thomas De Quincey (1785). After him are James Anderson (1680), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Winifred Wagner (1897), Samuel Butler (1612), Neil Gaiman (1960), and John Dryden (1631).
1752 - 1770
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 107
1810 - 1865
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 108
1910 - 1981
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 109
1914 - 1953
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 110
1920 - 2004
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 111
1785 - 1859
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 112
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 113
1680 - 1739
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 114
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 115
1897 - 1980
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 116
1612 - 1680
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 117
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 118
1631 - 1700
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 119