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FILM DIRECTOR

John Hughes

1950 - 2009

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John Wilden Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He began his career in 1970 as an author of humorous essays and stories for the National Lampoon magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hughes has received more than 142,227 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). John Hughes is the 477th most popular film director (up from 522nd in 2019), the 3,061st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,343rd in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Hughes ranks 477 out of 1,581. Before him are John Lasseter, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Stein, Dadasaheb Phalke, Marcel L'Herbier, and Gérard Oury. After him are Alexander Kluge, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, John Waters, Patrice Leconte, Aleksandar Petrović, and Yves Allégret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, John Hughes ranks 125. Before him are Elya Baskin, Laura Esquivel, Natalie Cole, Nancy Allen, Randy Quaid, and Yumi Umeoka. After him are James Rothman, Susana Higuchi, Bruce Boxleitner, Péter Esterházy, Bah Ndaw, and Richard Chase. Among people deceased in 2009, John Hughes ranks 110. Before him are Stephen Toulmin, Al Martino, Samak Sundaravej, Yegor Gaidar, Eric Woolfson, and Susanna Agnelli. After him are Marilyn Chambers, Willy DeVille, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Gene Barry, Francisco Ayala, and Savka Dabčević-Kučar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Hughes ranks 3,061 out of 18,182. Before him are Dinah Washington (1924), Lee Morgan (1938), Jim Garrison (1921), Ma Rainey (1886), Vanessa Williams (1963), and James S. Sherman (1855). After him are Marie Smith Jones (1918), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), James Rothman (1950), James J. Gibson (1904), Dwight F. Davis (1879), and Jennifer Beals (1963).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, John Hughes ranks 124. Before him are Curtis Hanson (1945), Robert Rossen (1908), Delbert Mann (1920), Aaron Russo (1943), Clarence Brown (1890), and John Lasseter (1957). After him are John Waters (1946), Hal Ashby (1929), Adam McKay (1968), Richard Lester (1932), Abel Ferrara (1951), and Martin Ritt (1914).

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Filmography

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