1956 - Today
Gopalaratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He is one of India's most acclaimed and commercially successful filmmakers. Ratnam has won six National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, six Filmfare Awards South, and numerous awards at various film festivals across the world. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mani Ratnam has received more than 8,116,136 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mani Ratnam is the 1,602nd most popular film director (down from 1,365th in 2019), the 865th most popular biography from India (down from 746th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Indian Film Director.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among film directors, Mani Ratnam ranks 1,602 out of 1,581. Before him are György Pálfi, Adam Curtis, Karan Johar, Pablo Berger, Władysław Pasikowski, and Amy Heckerling. After him are Errol Morris, Frank Coraci, Tom DiCillo, Dustin Lance Black, Stephen Gaghan, and Mark Pellington.
1974 - Present
HPI: 37.19
Rank: 1,596
1955 - Present
HPI: 37.19
Rank: 1,597
1972 - Present
HPI: 37.17
Rank: 1,598
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.15
Rank: 1,599
1959 - Present
HPI: 37.08
Rank: 1,600
1954 - Present
HPI: 37.01
Rank: 1,601
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 1,602
1948 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 1,603
1966 - Present
HPI: 36.99
Rank: 1,604
1953 - Present
HPI: 36.97
Rank: 1,605
1975 - Present
HPI: 36.97
Rank: 1,606
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.89
Rank: 1,607
1962 - Present
HPI: 36.84
Rank: 1,608
Among people born in 1956, Mani Ratnam ranks 555. Before him are Shamil Serikov, Sergei Borovsky, Shashi Tharoor, Jean-François Lamour, František Jakubec, and Arvydas Juozaitis. After him are Peter Reid, Clifton Powell, Michele Bachmann, John Romita Jr., Peter Caruana, and Bjarni Friðriksson.
1956 - 1989
HPI: 37.48
Rank: 549
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 550
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 551
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 552
1956 - 2016
HPI: 37.23
Rank: 553
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.19
Rank: 554
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 555
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.87
Rank: 556
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.86
Rank: 557
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.86
Rank: 558
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.84
Rank: 559
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.77
Rank: 560
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.75
Rank: 561
Among people born in India, Mani Ratnam ranks 865 out of 1,493. Before him are Dean Mahomed (1759), Sudha Chandran (1965), S. M. Krishna (1932), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), Karan Johar (1972), and Arun Shourie (1941). After him are Stan Swamy (1937), Anushka Sharma (1988), Ranjan Gogoi (1954), Bipasha Basu (1979), Karnam Malleswari (1975), and Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958).
1759 - 1851
HPI: 37.38
Rank: 859
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.37
Rank: 860
1932 - Present
HPI: 37.27
Rank: 861
1944 - 2021
HPI: 37.21
Rank: 862
1972 - Present
HPI: 37.17
Rank: 863
1941 - Present
HPI: 37.15
Rank: 864
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 865
1937 - 2021
HPI: 36.95
Rank: 866
1988 - Present
HPI: 36.93
Rank: 867
1954 - Present
HPI: 36.93
Rank: 868
1979 - Present
HPI: 36.90
Rank: 869
1975 - Present
HPI: 36.86
Rank: 870
1958 - Present
HPI: 36.85
Rank: 871
Among film directors born in India, Mani Ratnam ranks 23. Before him are Deepa Mehta (1950), Subhash Ghai (1945), K. Balachander (1930), Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1922), Aparna Sen (1945), and Karan Johar (1972). After him are Sanjay Leela Bhansali (1963), B. R. Chopra (1914), Farah Khan (1965), Mehboob Khan (1907), Rajkumar Hirani (1962), and Aditya Chopra (1971).
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 17
1945 - Present
HPI: 38.25
Rank: 18
1930 - 2014
HPI: 38.21
Rank: 19
1922 - 2006
HPI: 37.64
Rank: 20
1945 - Present
HPI: 37.61
Rank: 21
1972 - Present
HPI: 37.17
Rank: 22
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 23
1963 - Present
HPI: 36.61
Rank: 24
1914 - 2008
HPI: 36.21
Rank: 25
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.05
Rank: 26
1907 - 1964
HPI: 35.96
Rank: 27
1962 - Present
HPI: 35.90
Rank: 28
1971 - Present
HPI: 35.89
Rank: 29