1914 - 1998
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octavio Paz has received more than 691,682 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Octavio Paz is the 499th most popular writer (down from 456th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Writer.
Octavio Paz is most famous for being a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.
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Among writers, Octavio Paz ranks 499 out of 5,794. Before him are Robert A. Heinlein, Jules Michelet, Ludvig Holberg, George Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, and D. H. Lawrence. After him are Muhammad Iqbal, Frank Herbert, Ellen G. White, George Steiner, Giorgos Seferis, and Héloïse.
1907 - 1988
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 493
1798 - 1874
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 494
1684 - 1754
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 495
1819 - 1880
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 496
1926 - 1997
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 497
1885 - 1930
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 498
1914 - 1998
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 499
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 500
1920 - 1986
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 501
1827 - 1915
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 502
1929 - 2020
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 503
1900 - 1971
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 504
1101 - 1164
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 505
Among people born in 1914, Octavio Paz ranks 15. Before him are Michael Wittmann, Jiang Qing, Julio Cortázar, William S. Burroughs, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Alec Guinness. After him are Richard Widmark, Tyrone Power, Bohumil Hrabal, Lída Baarová, Joe Louis, and Aribert Heim. Among people deceased in 1998, Octavio Paz ranks 12. Before him are Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, Todor Zhivkov, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, and Niklas Luhmann. After him are Alan Shepard, Raymond Cattell, Vladimir Prelog, Theodore Schultz, Konstantinos Karamanlis, and Otto Kretschmer.
1914 - 1944
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 9
1914 - 1991
HPI: 76.39
Rank: 10
1914 - 1984
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 11
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 12
1914 - 2007
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 13
1914 - 2000
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 14
1914 - 1998
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 15
1914 - 2008
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 16
1914 - 1958
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 17
1914 - 1997
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 18
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 19
1914 - 1981
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 20
1914 - 1992
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 21
1925 - 1998
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 6
1895 - 1998
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 7
1911 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 8
1924 - 1998
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 9
1907 - 1998
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 10
1927 - 1998
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 11
1914 - 1998
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 12
1923 - 1998
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 13
1905 - 1998
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 14
1906 - 1998
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 15
1902 - 1998
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 16
1907 - 1998
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 17
1912 - 1998
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 18
Among people born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 12 out of 487. Before him are Carlos Slim (1940), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Pancho Villa (1878), Carlos Santana (1947), La Malinche (1502), and Cuauhtémoc (1495). After him are Porfirio Díaz (1830), Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794), Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946), Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), and Benito Juárez (1806).
1940 - Present
HPI: 78.60
Rank: 6
1879 - 1919
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 7
1878 - 1923
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 9
1502 - 1529
HPI: 74.98
Rank: 10
1495 - 1525
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 11
1914 - 1998
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 12
1830 - 1915
HPI: 74.18
Rank: 13
1794 - 1876
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 14
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 15
1648 - 1695
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 16
1957 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 17
1806 - 1872
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 18
Among writers born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 1. After him are Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Juan Rulfo (1917), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Laura Esquivel (1950), Amado Nervo (1870), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Cesar Millan (1969), Mariano Azuela (1873), and Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834).
1914 - 1998
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 1
1648 - 1695
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 2
1818 - 1883
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 3
1917 - 1986
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 4
1581 - 1639
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 5
1925 - 1974
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 6
1950 - Present
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 7
1870 - 1919
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 8
1939 - 2014
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 9
1969 - Present
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 10
1873 - 1952
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 11
1834 - 1893
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 12