1911 - 2006
Joseph Roland Barbera ( BAR-bər-ə; Italian: [barˈbɛːra]; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian immigrants in New York City, Barbera joined Van Beuren Studios in 1927 and subsequently Terrytoons in 1929. In 1937, he moved to California, and while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Barbera met William Hanna. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Barbera has received more than 2,542,488 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Joseph Barbera is the 6th most popular comic artist, the 554th most popular biography from United States (down from 485th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Comic Artist.
Joseph Barbera is most famous for co-creating the cartoon series Tom and Jerry with William Hanna.
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Among comic artists, Joseph Barbera ranks 6 out of 174. Before him are Stan Lee, Hergé, Osamu Tezuka, René Goscinny, and Albert Uderzo. After him are Jean Giraud, Carl Barks, Akira Toriyama, Peyo, Hugo Pratt, and Matt Groening.
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 1
1907 - 1983
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 2
1928 - 1989
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 3
1926 - 1977
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 4
1927 - 2020
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 5
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 6
1938 - 2012
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 7
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
Among people born in 1911, Joseph Barbera ranks 24. Before him are Mikhail Botvinnik, Tennessee Williams, Melvin Calvin, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, William Alfred Fowler, and Wilhelm Mohnke. After him are Lê Đức Thọ, Maurice Allais, Polykarp Kusch, Jules Dassin, Max Frisch, and Samuel Reshevsky. Among people deceased in 2006, Joseph Barbera ranks 19. Before him are Alfredo Stroessner, Philippe Noiret, Oriana Fallaci, Syd Barrett, György Ligeti, and Owen Chamberlain. After him are Ibrahim Rugova, Clifford Geertz, Anna Politkovskaya, Paul Mauriat, Clay Regazzoni, and Giacinto Facchetti.
1911 - 1995
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 18
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 19
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 20
1911 - 2004
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 21
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1911 - 2001
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 23
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 24
1911 - 1990
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 25
1911 - 2010
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 26
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 27
1911 - 2008
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 28
1911 - 1991
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 29
1911 - 1992
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 30
1912 - 2006
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 13
1930 - 2006
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 14
1929 - 2006
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 15
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 16
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 17
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 18
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 19
1944 - 2006
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 20
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 21
1958 - 2006
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 22
1925 - 2006
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 23
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24
1942 - 2006
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 25
Among people born in United States, Joseph Barbera ranks 554 out of 18,182. Before him are Francis Fukuyama (1952), James Caan (1940), Margaret Keane (1927), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), and Thorstein Veblen (1857). After him are Washington Irving (1783), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Dean Martin (1917), Farrah Fawcett (1947), and Theodore William Richards (1868).
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 548
1940 - 2022
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 549
1927 - 2022
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 550
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 551
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 552
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 553
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 554
1783 - 1859
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 555
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 556
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 557
1917 - 1995
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 558
1947 - 2009
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 559
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 560
Among comic artists born in United States, Joseph Barbera ranks 2. Before him are Stan Lee (1922). After him are Carl Barks (1901), Matt Groening (1954), Jack Kirby (1917), 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