1923 - 2004
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Giovanni has received more than 67,205 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. José Giovanni is the 2,823rd most popular writer (up from 3,204th in 2019), the 2,980th most popular biography from France (up from 3,102nd in 2019) and the 368th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, José Giovanni ranks 2,823 out of 5,755. Before him are Ouida, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Andre Norton, Lucia Berlin, and José Martínez Ruiz. After him are Prince Henri of Orléans, José María Arguedas, Edwin Arnold, S. N. Goenka, Katherine Jackson, and Abraham Sutzkever.
1839 - 1908
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,817
1875 - 1943
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,818
1796 - 1854
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,819
1912 - 2005
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,820
1936 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,821
1873 - 1967
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,822
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,823
1867 - 1901
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,824
1911 - 1969
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,825
1832 - 1904
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,826
1924 - 2013
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,827
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,828
1913 - 2010
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,829
Among people born in 1923, José Giovanni ranks 170. Before him are Evelyn McHale, Ziba Ganiyeva, Lydia Clarke, Gerard Reve, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, and Jozef Lenárt. After him are Ann Miller, Václav Ježek, René Favaloro, Linda Darnell, Constantin Dăscălescu, and Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs. Among people deceased in 2004, José Giovanni ranks 115. Before him are Thomas Gold, John Maynard Smith, Ryszard Kukliński, Hubert Selby Jr., Jozef Lenárt, and Lucia Berlin. After him are Ann Miller, Jesús Gil, Werner Goldberg, Takeshi Kamo, Philip Arthur Fisher, and Franz König.
1923 - 1947
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 164
1923 - 2010
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 165
1923 - 2018
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 166
1923 - 2006
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 167
1923 - 2016
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 168
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 169
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 170
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 171
1923 - 1995
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 172
1923 - 2000
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 173
1923 - 1965
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 174
1923 - 2003
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 175
1923 - 2015
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 176
1920 - 2004
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 109
1920 - 2004
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 110
1930 - 2004
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 111
1928 - 2004
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 112
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 113
1936 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 114
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 115
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 116
1933 - 2004
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 117
1919 - 2004
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 118
1915 - 2004
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 119
1907 - 2004
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 120
1905 - 2004
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 121
Among people born in France, José Giovanni ranks 2,980 out of 6,011. Before him are Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744), Joseph Vendryes (1875), Francis Ponge (1899), Claude Gillot (1673), Léon Brunschvicg (1869), and Jean-Luc Ponty (1942). After him are Peter Chanel (1803), Michel Blavet (1700), Didier Auriol (1958), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Nicolas de Grigny (1672), and Camille Guérin (1872).
1744 - 1818
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 2,974
1875 - 1960
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 2,975
1899 - 1988
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,976
1673 - 1722
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,977
1869 - 1944
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,978
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,979
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,980
1803 - 1841
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,981
1700 - 1768
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,982
1958 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,983
1850 - 1880
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,984
1672 - 1703
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,985
1872 - 1961
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 2,986
Among writers born in France, José Giovanni ranks 368. Before him are Suzanne Curchod (1737), Guiraut Riquier (1230), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Lupus Servatus (805), and Francis Ponge (1899). After him are Valery Larbaud (1881), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Jacques Delille (1738), Claude Farrère (1876), Hervé Bazin (1911), and Édouard Chavannes (1865).
1737 - 1794
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 362
1230 - 1292
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 363
1739 - 1803
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 364
1834 - 1908
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 365
805 - 862
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 366
1899 - 1988
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 367
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 368
1881 - 1957
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 369
1874 - 1909
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 370
1738 - 1813
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 371
1876 - 1957
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 372
1911 - 1996
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 373
1865 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 374