1848 - 1917
Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octave Mirbeau has received more than 188,784 page views. His biography is available in 144 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2019). Octave Mirbeau is the 49th most popular writer (up from 86th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from France (up from 80th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Writer.
Octave Mirbeau is most famous for his novel, The Torture Garden.
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Among writers, Octave Mirbeau ranks 49 out of 5,755. Before him are Jane Austen, Aristophanes, Euripides, Mark Twain, Simone de Beauvoir, and Sappho. After him are Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Émile Zola, Hesiod, Gabriel García Márquez, and Daniel Defoe.
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 43
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 44
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 45
1835 - 1910
HPI: 80.98
Rank: 46
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 47
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 48
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 49
1859 - 1930
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 50
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 51
1840 - 1902
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 52
800 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 53
1927 - 2014
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 54
1660 - 1731
HPI: 79.35
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1848, Octave Mirbeau ranks 2. Before him is Paul Gauguin. After him are Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Hugo de Vries, and Tōgō Heihachirō. Among people deceased in 1917, Octave Mirbeau ranks 2. Before him is Émile Durkheim. After him are Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Mata Hari, L. L. Zamenhof, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Emil von Behring, and Buffalo Bill.
1848 - 1903
HPI: 81.79
Rank: 1
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 2
1848 - 1923
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 3
1848 - 1925
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 4
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 5
1848 - 1907
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 6
1848 - 1916
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 7
1848 - 1894
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 8
1848 - 1916
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 9
1848 - 1922
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 10
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 11
1848 - 1934
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 12
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 1
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 2
1840 - 1917
HPI: 80.34
Rank: 3
1834 - 1917
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 4
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 5
1859 - 1917
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 6
1838 - 1917
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 7
1860 - 1917
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 8
1835 - 1917
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 9
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 10
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 11
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Octave Mirbeau ranks 45 out of 6,011. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Philip IV of France (1268), Eugène Delacroix (1798), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Louis XIII of France (1601), and Édouard Manet (1832). After him are Auguste Rodin (1840), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Émile Zola (1840), Claudius (-10), and Brigitte Bardot (1934).
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 39
1268 - 1314
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 40
1798 - 1863
HPI: 80.88
Rank: 41
1775 - 1836
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 42
1601 - 1643
HPI: 80.78
Rank: 43
1832 - 1883
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 44
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 45
1840 - 1917
HPI: 80.34
Rank: 46
1863 - 1937
HPI: 80.21
Rank: 47
1533 - 1592
HPI: 80.18
Rank: 48
1840 - 1902
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 49
10 BC - 54
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 50
1934 - Present
HPI: 79.81
Rank: 51
Among writers born in France, Octave Mirbeau ranks 12. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908). After him are Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), and Romain Rolland (1866).
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
1840 - 1902
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 13
1783 - 1842
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 14
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 15
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 16
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 17
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 18