1917 - 1961
Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer. The function of film, Deren believed, was to create an experience. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maya Deren has received more than 728,967 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Maya Deren is the 340th most popular film director (up from 345th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 229th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Maya Deren ranks 340 out of 1,581. Before her are John Boorman, Raúl Ruiz, Park Chan-wook, Edward Zwick, Makoto Shinkai, and Samuel Fuller. After her are Guy Hamilton, Robert Frank, Walerian Borowczyk, Mamoru Oshii, Bong Joon-ho, and Russ Meyer.
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 334
1941 - 2011
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 335
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 336
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 337
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 338
1912 - 1997
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 339
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 340
1922 - 2016
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 341
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 342
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 343
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 344
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 345
1922 - 2004
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 346
Among people born in 1917, Maya Deren ranks 97. Before her are Giuseppe De Santis, Vasily Petrov, Maurice Trintignant, Yigael Yadin, László Szabó, and Erich Rudorffer. After her are Augusto Roa Bastos, Yukio Tsuda, Kamal Jumblatt, David Easton, Andrew Wyeth, and Brad Dexter. Among people deceased in 1961, Maya Deren ranks 39. Before her are Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Maria Valtorta, Margherita Sarfatti, Werner Jaeger, Zoltán Tildy, and Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria. After her are Clark Ashton Smith, Herbert Pitman, Valentin Bondarenko, Anna May Wong, Henri Breuil, and Fyodor Kuznetsov.
1917 - 1997
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 91
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 92
1917 - 2005
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 93
1917 - 1984
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 94
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 95
1917 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 96
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 97
1917 - 2005
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 98
1917 - 1979
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 99
1917 - 1977
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 100
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 101
1917 - 2009
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 102
1917 - 2002
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 103
1878 - 1961
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 33
1897 - 1961
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 34
1880 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 35
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 36
1889 - 1961
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 37
1876 - 1961
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 38
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 39
1893 - 1961
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 40
1877 - 1961
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 41
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 42
1905 - 1961
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 43
1877 - 1961
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 44
1898 - 1961
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 45
Among people born in Ukraine, Maya Deren ranks 235 out of 1,083. Before her are Michael of Chernigov (1185), Ida Kamińska (1899), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vladimir Dal (1801), Alexander Marinesko (1913), and Lyudmila Rudenko (1904). After her are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), Joseph Kobzon (1937), Sergei Kovalev (1930), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), and Robert Maxwell (1923).
1185 - 1246
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 229
1899 - 1980
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 230
1856 - 1927
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 231
1801 - 1872
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 232
1913 - 1963
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 233
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 234
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 235
1819 - 1887
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 236
1937 - 2018
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 237
1930 - 2021
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 238
1876 - 1964
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 239
1768 - 1843
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 240
1923 - 1991
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 241
Among film directors born in Ukraine, Maya Deren ranks 6. Before her are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), and Anatole Litvak (1902). After her are Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Grigory Chukhray (1921).
1940 - 2016
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 1
1920 - 1994
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 2
1894 - 1956
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 3
1905 - 1986
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 4
1902 - 1974
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 5
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 6
1922 - 2007
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 7
1938 - 1979
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 8
1889 - 1937
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 9
1905 - 1973
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 10
1904 - 1979
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 11
1921 - 2001
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 12