1920 - 1999
Mario Francis Puzo (; Italian: [ˈmaːrjo ˈputtso, -ddzo]; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Puzo has received more than 3,750,810 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Mario Puzo is the 311th most popular writer (down from 266th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from United States (down from 237th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Writer.
Mario Puzo is most famous for his novel The Godfather, which was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Among writers, Mario Puzo ranks 311 out of 5,755. Before him are Roger Martin du Gard, Lorenzo Valla, J. M. Coetzee, Paul Heyse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and Prosper Mérimée. After him are Raymond Chandler, Paul Celan, Callimachus, Gregory of Tours, Karl May, and François Mauriac.
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 305
1407 - 1457
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 306
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 307
1830 - 1914
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 308
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 309
1803 - 1870
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 310
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 311
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 312
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 313
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 314
538 - 593
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 315
1842 - 1912
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 316
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 317
Among people born in 1920, Mario Puzo ranks 12. Before him are Frank Herbert, Toshiro Mifune, Rosalind Franklin, Ray Bradbury, Farouk of Egypt, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. After him are Paul Celan, Charlie Parker, Éric Rohmer, Melina Mercouri, Gianni Rodari, and Zecharia Sitchin. Among people deceased in 1999, Mario Puzo ranks 6. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Scatman John, Franjo Tuđman, Hussein of Jordan, and Hassan II of Morocco. After him are Joaquín Rodrigo, Pete Conrad, Gertrude B. Elion, Amália Rodrigues, Yehudi Menuhin, and Raisa Gorbacheva.
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 6
1920 - 1997
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 7
1920 - 1958
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 8
1920 - 2012
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 9
1920 - 1965
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 10
1920 - 2020
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 11
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 12
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 13
1920 - 1955
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 14
1920 - 2010
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 15
1920 - 1994
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 16
1920 - 1980
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 17
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 18
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 1
1942 - 1999
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 2
1922 - 1999
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 3
1935 - 1999
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 4
1929 - 1999
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 5
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 6
1901 - 1999
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 7
1930 - 1999
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 8
1918 - 1999
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 9
1920 - 1999
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 10
1916 - 1999
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 11
1932 - 1999
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Mario Puzo ranks 290 out of 18,182. Before him are Bette Davis (1908), Bruce Springsteen (1949), Nick Nolte (1941), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), Norbert Wiener (1894), and Shirley MacLaine (1934). After him are Raymond Chandler (1888), Gloria Stuart (1910), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), and Eli Wallach (1915).
1908 - 1989
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 284
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 285
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 286
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 287
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 288
1934 - Present
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 289
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 290
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 291
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 292
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 293
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 294
1887 - 1986
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 295
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 296
Among writers born in United States, Mario Puzo ranks 27. Before him are Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Philip K. Dick (1928), Coen brothers (null), Walt Whitman (1819), Henry Miller (1891), and Margaret Mitchell (1900). After him are Raymond Chandler (1888), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), Arthur Miller (1915), Louise Glück (1943), and Napoleon Hill (1883).
1803 - 1882
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 21
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 22
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 23
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 24
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 25
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 26
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 27
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 28
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 29
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 30
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 31
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 32
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 33