1914 - 1977
Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated into English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu, and later, after partition in 1947, took to writing in Hindi as well. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krishan Chander has received more than 219,410 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Krishan Chander is the 3,700th most popular writer (up from 4,513th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from India (up from 506th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Indian Writer.
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Among writers, Krishan Chander ranks 3,700 out of 5,755. Before him are Simin Daneshvar, Maurice Sachs, Laurens van der Post, Jorge Isaacs, Dennis Lehane, and Frederic W. H. Myers. After him are Picander, Marco Girolamo Vida, Andrejs Pumpurs, Kader Abdolah, Nagarjun, and Paul Goma.
1921 - 2012
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,694
1906 - 1945
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 3,695
1906 - 1996
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 3,696
1837 - 1895
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 3,697
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 3,698
1843 - 1901
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 3,699
1914 - 1977
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 3,700
1700 - 1764
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 3,701
1485 - 1566
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 3,702
1841 - 1902
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 3,703
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 3,704
1911 - 1998
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 3,705
1935 - 2020
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 3,706
Among people born in 1914, Krishan Chander ranks 206. Before him are Ralph Erskine, Edmund Muskie, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Wolfgang Windgassen, Bertus Aafjes, and Shaken Aimanov. After him are Jacques Dufilho, Harold Russell, Marcel Kint, Henri Laborit, Sisowath Sirik Matak, and Jaap Bakema. Among people deceased in 1977, Krishan Chander ranks 139. Before him are Siegfried Buback, Neco, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Gummo Marx, Konstantin Fedin, and Willem Schermerhorn. After him are Eugen Schüfftan, Jean Duvieusart, Ilia Vekua, Vladimir Tributs, Martí Ventolrà, and Leila Hyams.
1914 - 2005
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 200
1914 - 1996
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 201
1914 - 1993
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 202
1914 - 1974
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 203
1914 - 1993
HPI: 49.73
Rank: 204
1914 - 1970
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 205
1914 - 1977
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 206
1914 - 2005
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 207
1914 - 2002
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 208
1914 - 2002
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 209
1914 - 1995
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 210
1914 - 1975
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 211
1914 - 1981
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 212
1920 - 1977
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 133
1895 - 1977
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 134
1912 - 1977
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 135
1893 - 1977
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 136
1892 - 1977
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 137
1894 - 1977
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 138
1914 - 1977
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 139
1893 - 1977
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 140
1900 - 1977
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 141
1907 - 1977
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 142
1900 - 1977
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 143
1906 - 1977
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 144
1905 - 1977
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 145
Among people born in India, Krishan Chander ranks 430 out of 1,493. Before him are Jai Singh II (1688), Kumar Sanu (1957), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Jayalalithaa (1948), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), and Kamala Nehru (1899). After him are Nagarjun (1911), Fathima Beevi (1927), Arundhati Roy (1961), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939).
1688 - 1743
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 424
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 425
1656 - 1664
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 426
1948 - 2016
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 427
1923 - 2011
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 428
1899 - 1936
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 429
1914 - 1977
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 430
1911 - 1998
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 431
1927 - 2023
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 432
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 433
1893 - 1972
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 434
1444 - 1544
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 435
1939 - 2022
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 436
Among writers born in India, Krishan Chander ranks 67. Before him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), R. K. Narayan (1906), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Shibli Nomani (1857), Ibn Warraq (1946), and Altaf Hussain Hali (1837). After him are Nagarjun (1911), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Yashpal (1903), Nirmal Verma (1929), and Mahadev Desai (1892).
1904 - 1948
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 61
1906 - 2001
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 62
1894 - 1950
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 63
1857 - 1914
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 64
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 65
1837 - 1914
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 66
1914 - 1977
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 67
1911 - 1998
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 68
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 69
1887 - 1971
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 70
1903 - 1976
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 71
1929 - 2005
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 72
1892 - 1942
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 73