1622 - 1673
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɔklɛ̃], [pɔkəlɛ̃]; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (UK: , US: , French: [mɔljɛʁ]), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Molière has received more than 2,692,942 page views. His biography is available in 149 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 148 in 2019). Molière is the 20th most popular writer (down from 14th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from France (down from 13th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Writer.
Molière is most famous for his play "The Misanthrope."
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Among writers, Molière ranks 20 out of 5,755. Before him are Virgil, Aesop, Jules Verne, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ovid. After him are Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, and Anne Frank.
70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 14
620 BC - 564 BC
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 15
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 16
1547 - 1616
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 17
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 18
43 BC - 17
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 19
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 20
1890 - 1976
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 21
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 22
1913 - 1960
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 23
1900 - 1944
HPI: 83.63
Rank: 24
1304 - 1374
HPI: 83.55
Rank: 25
1929 - 1945
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 26
Among people born in 1622, Molière ranks 1. After him are Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Carel Fabritius, Vincenzo Viviani, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Vittoria della Rovere, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Bernhardus Varenius, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Karel Dujardin, Juan de Valdés Leal, and Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1673, Molière ranks 1. After him are Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Margaret Theresa of Spain, Salvator Rosa, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Semyon Dezhnev, Regnier de Graaf, Joan Blaeu, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Barent Fabritius.
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 1
1622 - 1660
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 2
1622 - 1654
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 3
1622 - 1703
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 4
1622 - 1676
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 5
1622 - 1694
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 6
1622 - 1686
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 7
1622 - 1650
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 8
1622 - 1683
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 9
1622 - 1678
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 10
1622 - 1690
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 11
1622 - 1708
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 12
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 1
1611 - 1673
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 2
1651 - 1673
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 3
1615 - 1673
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 4
1640 - 1673
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 5
1605 - 1673
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 6
1641 - 1673
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 7
1596 - 1673
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 8
1635 - 1673
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 9
1623 - 1673
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 10
1624 - 1673
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 11
Among people born in France, Molière ranks 15 out of 6,011. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Montesquieu (1689), Louis XVI of France (1754), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Nostradamus (1503). After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Charles de Gaulle (1890), John Calvin (1509), Auguste Comte (1798), Alain Delon (1935), and Émile Durkheim (1858).
1840 - 1926
HPI: 85.77
Rank: 9
1689 - 1755
HPI: 85.71
Rank: 10
1754 - 1793
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 11
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 12
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 13
1503 - 1566
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 14
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 15
1900 - 1944
HPI: 83.63
Rank: 16
1890 - 1970
HPI: 83.58
Rank: 17
1509 - 1564
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 18
1798 - 1857
HPI: 83.37
Rank: 19
1935 - Present
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 20
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 21
Among writers born in France, Molière ranks 5. Before him are Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Jules Verne (1828), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905). After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 1
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 2
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 3
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 4
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 5
1900 - 1944
HPI: 83.63
Rank: 6
1799 - 1850
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 7
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 8
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 9
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 10
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 11
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 12