1865 - 1885
L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the Seine) was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of L'Inconnue de la Seine has received more than 1,404,383 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). L'Inconnue de la Seine is the 3,229th most popular politician (up from 4,199th in 2019).
The l'inconnue de la seine is most famous for her identity. She was found in the Seine River in the 1800s and has never been identified.
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Among politicians, L'Inconnue de la Seine ranks 3,229 out of 15,577. Before her are Liu Bian, Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Thorismund, Augustin Robespierre, and Ladislaus III of Hungary. After her are Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Wilfred the Hairy, Intef II, and Ranavalona III.
176 - 190
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 3,223
1533 - 1572
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 3,224
1883 - 1951
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,225
420 - 453
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,226
1763 - 1794
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,227
1199 - 1205
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,228
1865 - 1885
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,229
70 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,230
1765 - 1831
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,231
1519 - 1536
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,232
840 - 897
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 3,233
2150 BC - 2073 BC
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 3,234
1861 - 1917
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 3,235
Among people born in 1865, L'Inconnue de la Seine ranks 28. Before her are Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Arthur Harden, Amélie of Orléans, Benjamin Guggenheim, Jacques Hadamard, and John Mott. After her are Mikao Usui, Wilfrid Voynich, Valentin Serov, Rashid Rida, Gabriel Narutowicz, and Gérard Encausse. Among people deceased in 1885, L'Inconnue de la Seine ranks 9. Before her are Alfonso XII of Spain, Muhammad Ahmad, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, and Carl Spitzweg. After her are Charles George Gordon, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Rosalía de Castro, Iwasaki Yatarō, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.
1865 - 1931
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 22
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 23
1865 - 1951
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 24
1865 - 1912
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 25
1865 - 1963
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 26
1865 - 1955
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 27
1865 - 1885
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 28
1865 - 1926
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 29
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 30
1865 - 1911
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 31
1865 - 1935
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 32
1865 - 1922
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 33
1865 - 1916
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 34
1857 - 1885
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 3
1844 - 1885
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 4
1847 - 1885
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 5
1816 - 1885
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 6
1806 - 1885
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 7
1808 - 1885
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 8
1865 - 1885
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 9
1833 - 1885
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 10
1811 - 1885
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 11
1837 - 1885
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 12
1835 - 1885
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 13
1828 - 1885
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 14
1812 - 1885
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 15