1920 - 1999
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is known for his 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 1,874,587 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Mario Puzo is the 266th most popular writer (up from 287th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from United States (up from 245th in 2019) and the 25th 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 266 out of 5,794. Before him are Tomas Tranströmer, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jaroslav Hašek, Taras Shevchenko, and Marcus Terentius Varro. After him are Antonin Artaud, Shota Rustaveli, Amos Oz, Fuzûlî, Carlos Castaneda, and Friedrich Hölderlin.
1931 - 2015
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 260
1441 - 1501
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 261
1846 - 1916
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 262
1883 - 1923
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 263
1814 - 1861
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 264
116 BC - 27 BC
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 265
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 266
1896 - 1948
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 267
1172 - 1216
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 268
1939 - 2018
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 269
1494 - 1556
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 270
1925 - 1998
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 271
1770 - 1843
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 272
Among people born in 1920, Mario Puzo ranks 10. Before him are Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Ray Bradbury, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Toshiro Mifune, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are Farouk of Egypt, Paul Celan, Charlie Parker, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Montgomery Clift, and Éric Rohmer. Among people deceased in 1999, Mario Puzo ranks 4. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Franjo Tuđman, and Hussein of Jordan. After him are Scatman John, Hassan II of Morocco, Wilt Chamberlain, Pete Conrad, Joaquín Rodrigo, Yehudi Menuhin, Wassily Leontief, and Gertrude B. Elion.
1920 - 1985
HPI: 83.03
Rank: 4
1920 - 1994
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 5
1920 - 2012
HPI: 80.39
Rank: 6
1920 - 2020
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 7
1920 - 1997
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 8
1920 - 1958
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 9
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 10
1920 - 1965
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 11
1920 - 1970
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 12
1920 - 1955
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 13
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 14
1920 - 1966
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 15
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 16
1928 - 1999
HPI: 84.93
Rank: 1
1922 - 1999
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 2
1935 - 1999
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 3
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 4
1942 - 1999
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 5
1929 - 1999
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 6
1936 - 1999
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 7
1930 - 1999
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1901 - 1999
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 9
1916 - 1999
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 10
1906 - 1999
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 11
1918 - 1999
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Mario Puzo ranks 237 out of 15,968. Before him are Henry Miller (1891), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Andrew Jackson (1767), Robert K. Merton (1910), Robert Fulton (1765), and William James Sidis (1898). After him are Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Gene Hackman (1930), Miles Davis (1926), Scatman John (1942), Harvey Keitel (1939), and Ava Gardner (1922).
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 231
1946 - Present
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 232
1767 - 1845
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 233
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 234
1765 - 1815
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 235
1898 - 1944
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 236
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 237
1927 - 1987
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 238
1930 - Present
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 239
1926 - 1991
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 240
1942 - 1999
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 241
1939 - Present
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 242
1922 - 1990
HPI: 77.46
Rank: 243
Among writers born in United States, Mario Puzo ranks 25. Before him are Dr. Seuss (1904), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Walt Whitman (1819), Emily Dickinson (1830), Philip K. Dick (1928), and Henry Miller (1891). After him are O. Henry (1862), Arthur Miller (1915), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), Truman Capote (1924), and Margaret Mitchell (1900).
1904 - 1991
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 19
1803 - 1882
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 20
1819 - 1892
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 21
1830 - 1886
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 22
1928 - 1982
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 23
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 24
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 25
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 26
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 27
1922 - 1969
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 28
1885 - 1972
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 29
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 30
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 31