1883 - 1957
Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης [ˈnikos kazanˈd͡zacis]; 2 March (OS 18 February) 1883 – 26 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide.Kazantzakis's novels included Zorba the Greek (published in 1946 as Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas), Christ Recrucified (1948), Captain Michalis (1950, translated Freedom or Death), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1955). He also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs, and philosophical essays, such as The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikos Kazantzakis has received more than 1,203,383 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikos Kazantzakis is the 226th most popular writer (up from 227th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Greece (down from 66th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Greek Writer.
Nikos Kazantzakis is most famous for his novel Zorba the Greek.
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Among writers, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 226 out of 5,755. Before him are Luís de Camões, Ray Bradbury, Luigi Pirandello, John Milton, Peter Drucker, and Johanna Spyri. After him are Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Maurice Leblanc, Al-Masudi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Lu Xun.
1524 - 1580
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 220
1920 - 2012
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 221
1867 - 1936
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 222
1608 - 1674
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 223
1909 - 2005
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 224
1827 - 1901
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 225
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 226
1600 - 1681
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 227
1864 - 1941
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 228
896 - 956
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 229
1803 - 1882
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 230
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 231
1881 - 1936
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 232
Among people born in 1883, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 10. Before him are John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Walter Gropius, Khalil Gibran, Joseph Schumpeter, and Anton Webern. After him are Jaroslav Hašek, Lev Kamenev, José Ortega y Gasset, Clement Attlee, Grigory Zinoviev, and Napoleon Hill. Among people deceased in 1957, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 8. Before him are Jean Sibelius, Friedrich Paulus, Christian Dior, Diego Rivera, Miklós Horthy, and Humphrey Bogart. After him are Wilhelm Reich, Oliver Hardy, Haakon VII of Norway, Gichin Funakoshi, Arturo Toscanini, and Constantin Brâncuși.
1883 - 1946
HPI: 81.58
Rank: 4
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 5
1883 - 1969
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 6
1883 - 1931
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 7
1883 - 1950
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 8
1883 - 1945
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 9
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 10
1883 - 1923
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 11
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 12
1883 - 1955
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 13
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 14
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 15
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 16
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 2
1890 - 1957
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 3
1905 - 1957
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 4
1886 - 1957
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 5
1868 - 1957
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 6
1899 - 1957
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 7
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 8
1897 - 1957
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 9
1892 - 1957
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 10
1872 - 1957
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 11
1868 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 12
1867 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 13
1876 - 1957
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 14
Among people born in Greece, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 68 out of 936. Before him are Antisthenes (-445), Epaminondas (-418), Peleus (null), Vangelis (1943), Demetrius of Thessaloniki (270), and Ptolemy II Philadelphus (-308). After him are Irene of Athens (752), Isocrates (-436), Seleucus I Nicator (-358), Nana Mouskouri (1934), Constantine I of Greece (1868), and Clement of Alexandria (150).
445 BC - 365 BC
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 62
418 BC - 362 BC
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 63
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 64
1943 - 2022
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 65
270 - 306
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 66
308 BC - 246 BC
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 67
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 68
752 - 803
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 69
436 BC - 338 BC
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 70
358 BC - 281 BC
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 71
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 72
1868 - 1923
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 73
150 - 215
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 74
Among writers born in Greece, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 9. Before him are Aeschylus (-525), Aristophanes (-448), Euripides (-480), Sappho (-630), Pindar (-517), and Menander (-342). After him are Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Arion (-700), and Lysias (-445).
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 3
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 4
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 5
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 6
517 BC - 437 BC
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 7
342 BC - 291 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 8
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 9
620 BC - 560 BC
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 10
680 BC - 645 BC
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 11
556 BC - 468 BC
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 12
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 13
700 BC - 660 BC
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 14
445 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 15