1886 - 1941
May Elias Ziadeh ( zee-AH-də; Arabic: مي إلياس زيادة, ALA-LC: Mayy Ilyās Ziyādah; 11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941) was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist, and translator, who wrote many different works both in Arabic and in French.After attending school in her native city Nazareth and in Lebanon, May Elias Ziadeh immigrated along with her family to Egypt in 1908, and started publishing her works in French (under the pen name Isis Copia) in 1911. Gibran Kahlil Gibran entered into a well-known correspondence with her in 1912. Being a prolific writer, she wrote for Arabic-language newspapers and periodicals, along with publishing poems and books. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of May Ziade has received more than 81,913 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. May Ziade is the 2,722nd most popular writer (down from 2,653rd in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Israel (down from 178th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Israeli Writer.
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Among writers, May Ziade ranks 2,722 out of 5,794. Before her are Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Caspar Barlaeus, Adam Zagajewski, Ernst Wiechert, William L. Shirer, and Petar Preradović. After her are Ibn Zaydún, Jon Fosse, Maksym Rylsky, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Paterson, and Robert M. Pirsig.
718 - 785
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 2,716
1584 - 1648
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 2,717
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 2,718
1887 - 1950
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 2,719
1904 - 1993
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 2,720
1818 - 1872
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 2,721
1886 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 2,722
1003 - 1071
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 2,723
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 2,724
1895 - 1964
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 2,725
1873 - 1939
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 2,726
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 2,727
1928 - 2017
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 2,728
Among people born in 1886, May Ziade ranks 122. Before her are Armin T. Wegner, Al Jolson, Peter Freuchen, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Muhamed Mehmedbašić. After her are Erich Salomon, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Johnny Hayes, Othmar Schoeck, Delmira Agustini, and Leo G. Carroll. Among people deceased in 1941, May Ziade ranks 88. Before her are Wil van Gogh, Amrita Sher-Gil, Simon Dubnow, Gutzon Borglum, J. Stuart Blackton, and Olga Kameneva. After her are Issai Schur, Eugène Boch, Mustafa Shokay, Elizabeth von Arnim, Nicolae Titulescu, and Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
1886 - 1978
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 116
1886 - 1950
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 117
1886 - 1957
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 118
1886 - 1967
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 119
1886 - 1944
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 120
1886 - 1943
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 121
1886 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 122
1886 - 1944
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 123
1886 - 1946
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 124
1886 - 1965
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 125
1886 - 1957
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 126
1886 - 1914
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 127
1886 - 1972
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 128
1862 - 1941
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 82
1913 - 1941
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 83
1860 - 1941
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 84
1867 - 1941
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 85
1875 - 1941
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 86
1883 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 87
1886 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 88
1875 - 1941
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 89
1855 - 1941
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 90
1890 - 1941
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 91
1866 - 1941
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 92
1882 - 1941
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 93
1879 - 1941
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 94
Among people born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 193 out of 389. Before her are Dani Karavan (1930), Hugh I of Cyprus (1194), Ron Huldai (1944), Dana International (1969), Peter I, Count of Alençon (1251), and Naomi Shemer (1930). After her are Michel Sabbah (1933), Moshe Safdie (1938), Moshe Ya'alon (1950), Ralph Bakshi (1938), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), and Achinoam Nini (1969).
1930 - Present
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 187
1194 - 1218
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 188
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 189
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 190
1251 - 1284
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 191
1930 - 2004
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 192
1886 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 193
1933 - Present
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 194
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 195
1950 - Present
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 196
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 197
1926 - 2001
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 198
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 199
Among writers born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 8. Before her are Amos Oz (1939), Edward Said (1935), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), David Grossman (1954), Ghassan Kanafani (1936), and A. B. Yehoshua (1936). After her are Ahron Daum (1951), Emile Habibi (1922), Etgar Keret (1967), Meir Shalev (1948), Tony Cliff (1917), and Gideon Levy (1953).
1939 - 2018
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 2
1935 - 2003
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 3
1941 - 2008
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 4
1954 - Present
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 5
1936 - 1972
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 6
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 7
1886 - 1941
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 8
1951 - 2018
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 9
1922 - 1996
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 10
1967 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 12
1917 - 2000
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 13
1953 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 14