1892 - 1968
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich. Her best-known involvement was with Greta Garbo with whom, in 1931, she began a sporadic and volatile romance. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mercedes de Acosta has received more than 850,788 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mercedes de Acosta is the 3,038th most popular writer (up from 3,280th in 2019), the 3,969th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,321st in 2019) and the 355th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 3,038 out of 5,755. Before her are Gunnar Ekelöf, Takeo Arishima, Boris Polevoy, Juliette Adam, Samad Behrangi, and Marie-Joseph Chénier. After her are Viktor Dyk, Emile Habibi, Daniël Heinsius, Dodie Smith, Glen Cook, and Catherine Breillat.
1907 - 1968
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 3,032
1878 - 1923
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 3,033
1908 - 1981
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 3,034
1836 - 1936
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 3,035
1939 - 1967
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,036
1764 - 1811
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,037
1892 - 1968
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,038
1877 - 1931
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,039
1922 - 1996
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,040
1580 - 1655
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,041
1896 - 1990
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,042
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,043
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,044
Among people born in 1892, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 151. Before her are William Powell, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Alice Brady, Hironori Ōtsuka, Yuen Ren Chao, and Ivan Tyulenev. After her are Corrie ten Boom, Manuel Roxas, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Lydia Lopokova, Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Among people deceased in 1968, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 104. Before her are Camille Huysmans, Sigfried Giedion, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Lina Stern, Jan Johansson, and Gunnar Ekelöf. After her are Khuang Aphaiwong, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Joseph Keilberth, Ivan Pyryev, Ramon Novarro, and Ludowika Jakobsson.
1892 - 1984
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 145
1892 - 1946
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 146
1892 - 1939
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 147
1892 - 1982
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 148
1892 - 1982
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 149
1892 - 1978
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 150
1892 - 1968
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 151
1892 - 1983
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 152
1892 - 1948
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 153
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 154
1892 - 1981
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 155
1892 - 1981
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 156
1892 - 1950
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 157
1871 - 1968
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 98
1888 - 1968
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 99
1899 - 1968
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 100
1878 - 1968
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 101
1931 - 1968
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 102
1907 - 1968
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 103
1892 - 1968
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 104
1902 - 1968
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 105
1880 - 1968
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 106
1908 - 1968
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 107
1901 - 1968
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 108
1899 - 1968
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 109
1884 - 1968
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 110
Among people born in United States, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 3,969 out of 18,182. Before her are Sean Astin (1971), Jack Arnold (1916), Roy Buchanan (1939), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), Sandahl Bergman (1951), and Ralph Nader (1934). After her are Dwight L. Moody (1837), Don Adams (1923), Glen Cook (1944), Afrika Bambaataa (1957), Michael Peña (1976), and Jeff Hanneman (1964).
1971 - Present
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 3,963
1916 - 1992
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 3,964
1939 - 1988
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 3,965
1928 - 2016
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 3,966
1951 - Present
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 3,967
1934 - Present
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,968
1892 - 1968
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,969
1837 - 1899
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,970
1923 - 2005
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,971
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,972
1957 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,973
1976 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,974
1964 - 2013
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 3,975
Among writers born in United States, Mercedes de Acosta ranks 355. Before her are Betty Mahmoody (1945), Robert McKee (1941), Howard Pyle (1853), James Rollins (1961), Fanny Crosby (1820), and Robert M. Pirsig (1928). After her are Glen Cook (1944), Robert Bly (1926), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Glen A. Larson (1937), Gregory Benford (1941), and Jim Carroll (1949).
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 349
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 350
1853 - 1911
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 351
1961 - Present
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 352
1820 - 1915
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 353
1928 - 2017
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 354
1892 - 1968
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 355
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 356
1926 - 2021
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 357
1792 - 1875
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 358
1937 - 2014
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 359
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 360
1949 - 2009
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 361