1913 - 1994
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian philosopher. Gómez Dávila's fame began to spread only in the last few years before his death, particularly by way of German translations of his works. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolás Gómez Dávila has received more than 220,493 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolás Gómez Dávila is the 1,341st most popular writer (up from 1,372nd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Colombia (up from 12th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Colombian Writer.
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Among writers, Nicolás Gómez Dávila ranks 1,341 out of 5,794. Before him are Robert de Montesquiou, Kâtip Çelebi, Thomas Chatterton, Khaled Hosseini, Erich Segal, and Joanot Martorell. After him are Gunnar Gunnarsson, Michael Connelly, Judah Leon Abravanel, Robert E. Howard, Gore Vidal, and Léon Werth.
1855 - 1921
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 1,335
1609 - 1657
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 1,336
1752 - 1770
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 1,337
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 1,338
1937 - 2010
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 1,339
1415 - 1465
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 1,340
1913 - 1994
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 1,341
1889 - 1975
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 1,342
1956 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 1,343
1460 - 1530
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 1,344
1906 - 1936
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 1,345
1925 - 2012
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 1,346
1878 - 1955
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 1,347
Among people born in 1913, Nicolás Gómez Dávila ranks 67. Before him are Richard Stone, Gerda Christian, Xi Zhongxun, Stanley Kramer, Mickey Cohen, and Stewart Granger. After him are Lloyd Bridges, Loretta Young, Tito Gobbi, Alan Ladd, Benjamin Bloom, and Heinz Linge. Among people deceased in 1994, Nicolás Gómez Dávila ranks 65. Before him are Robert Bloch, Terence Young, James Clavell, Ken Noritake, Sylva Koscina, and Wilma Rudolph. After him are Joseph Cotten, Jeffrey Dahmer, Max Bill, Chung Il-kwon, Tengiz Abuladze, and Cab Calloway.
1913 - 1991
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 61
1913 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 62
1913 - 2002
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 63
1913 - 2001
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 64
1913 - 1976
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 65
1913 - 1993
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 66
1913 - 1994
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 67
1913 - 1998
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 68
1913 - 2000
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 69
1913 - 1984
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 70
1913 - 1964
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 71
1913 - 1999
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 72
1913 - 1980
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 73
1917 - 1994
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 59
1915 - 1994
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 60
1921 - 1994
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 61
1922 - 1994
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 62
1933 - 1994
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 63
1940 - 1994
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 64
1913 - 1994
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 65
1905 - 1994
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 66
1960 - 1994
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 67
1908 - 1994
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 68
1917 - 1994
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 69
1924 - 1994
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 70
1907 - 1994
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 71
Among people born in Colombia, Nicolás Gómez Dávila ranks 10 out of 271. Before him are César Gaviria (1947), Juan Manuel Santos (1951), Shakira (1977), Carlos Valderrama (1961), René Higuita (1966), and Carlos Valdes (1989). After him are Luis Carlos Galán (1943), Francisco de Paula Santander (1792), Griselda Blanco (1943), Álvaro Uribe (1952), Sofía Vergara (1972), and Virgilio Barco Vargas (1921).
1947 - Present
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 4
1951 - Present
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 5
1977 - Present
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 6
1961 - Present
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 7
1966 - Present
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 8
1989 - Present
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 9
1913 - 1994
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 10
1943 - 1989
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 11
1792 - 1840
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 12
1943 - 2012
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 13
1952 - Present
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 14
1972 - Present
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 15
1921 - 1997
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 16
Among writers born in Colombia, Nicolás Gómez Dávila ranks 2. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez (1927). After him are Samael Aun Weor (1917), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Jorge Isaacs (1837), Fernando Vallejo (1942), Laura Restrepo (1950), and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (1973).
1927 - 2014
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 1
1913 - 1994
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 2
1917 - 1977
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 3
1923 - 2013
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 4
1837 - 1895
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 6
1950 - Present
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 7
1973 - Present
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 8