1873 - 1936
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmet Akif Ersoy has received more than 198,694 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mehmet Akif Ersoy is the 1,497th most popular writer (down from 1,480th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 491st in 2019) and the 37th most popular Turkish Writer.
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Among writers, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 1,497 out of 5,755. Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Gottfried von Strassburg, Peter Abrahams, Håkan Nesser, Michael Moorcock, and Nicholas Sparks. After him are Raymond Roussel, Li Qingzhao, Gottfried August Bürger, Gore Vidal, David Woodard, and Gil Vicente.
1826 - 1889
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 1,491
1180 - 1215
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 1,492
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 1,493
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 1,494
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 1,495
1965 - Present
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 1,496
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 1,497
1877 - 1933
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 1,498
1084 - 1155
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 1,499
1747 - 1794
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 1,500
1925 - 2012
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 1,501
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 1,502
1465 - 1536
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 1,503
Among people born in 1873, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 53. Before him are Robert Wiene, Eliel Saarinen, Hugo Simberg, Arnold van Gennep, Leo Frobenius, and Édouard Claparède. After him are Hans Berger, Max Adler, Sidney Reilly, Antonie Pannekoek, Thorvald Stauning, and Jukums Vācietis. Among people deceased in 1936, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 58. Before him are Max Schreck, Kikunae Ikeda, Basil Zaharoff, Carl Stumpf, Mikhail Tomsky, and Edward Bach. After him are Saitō Makoto, Alexander Berkman, Anna Boch, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Martin Lowry, and Gyula Gömbös.
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 47
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 48
1873 - 1917
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 49
1873 - 1957
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 50
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 51
1873 - 1940
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 52
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 53
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 54
1873 - 1937
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 55
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 56
1873 - 1960
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 57
1873 - 1942
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 58
1873 - 1938
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 59
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 52
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 53
1849 - 1936
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 54
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 55
1880 - 1936
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 56
1886 - 1936
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 57
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 58
1858 - 1936
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 59
1870 - 1936
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 60
1848 - 1936
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 61
1866 - 1936
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 62
1874 - 1936
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 63
1886 - 1936
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 64
Among people born in Turkey, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 515 out of 1,301. Before him are Pelagia (400), Ardys of Lydia (-750), Nubar Pasha (1825), Eunapius (349), Joe Strummer (1952), and Mursili III (-1400). After him are Metrodorus of Lampsacus (-331), Despina Khatun (1438), Stratonice of Syria (-317), George Syncellus (800), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948), and Tchéky Karyo (1953).
400 - 457
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 509
750 BC - 629 BC
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 510
1825 - 1899
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 511
349 - 420
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 512
1952 - 2002
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 513
1400 BC - 1267 BC
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 514
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 515
331 BC - 278 BC
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 516
1438 - Present
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 517
317 BC - 268 BC
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 518
800 - 810
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 519
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 520
1953 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 521
Among writers born in Turkey, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 37. Before him are Aelius Aristides (117), Callinus (-680), Oribasius (325), Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), and Kâtip Çelebi (1609). After him are Yeghishe Charents (1897), Petros Markaris (1937), Symeon the New Theologian (949), Yaşar Kemal (1923), Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti (1929), and Zeki Müren (1931).
117 - 189
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 31
680 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 32
325 - 403
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 33
390 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 34
400 - 400
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 35
1609 - 1657
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 36
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 37
1897 - 1937
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 38
1937 - Present
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 39
949 - 1022
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 40
1923 - 2015
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 41
1929 - 2013
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 42
1931 - 1996
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 43