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 959,415 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 92 in 2019). Octavio Paz is the 473rd most popular writer (up from 499th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 12th 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 473 out of 5,755. Before him are Henry IV of Castile, René Guénon, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jacques Hébert, Grazia Deledda, and William Makepeace Thackeray. After him are Boris Vian, Savitribai Phule, Jules Michelet, William S. Burroughs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and D. H. Lawrence.
1425 - 1474
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 467
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 468
1170 - 1220
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 469
1757 - 1794
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 470
1871 - 1936
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 471
1811 - 1863
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 472
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 473
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 474
1831 - 1897
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 475
1798 - 1874
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 476
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 477
1804 - 1864
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 478
1885 - 1930
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 479
Among people born in 1914, Octavio Paz ranks 16. Before him are Michael Wittmann, Aribert Heim, Alec Guinness, Romain Gary, Julio Cortázar, and Bohumil Hrabal. After him are William S. Burroughs, Richard Widmark, Lída Baarová, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Jonas Salk, and Willi Stoph. Among people deceased in 1998, Octavio Paz ranks 11. Before him are Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Carlos Castaneda, Jean-François Lyotard, and Yang Shangkun. After him are Alan Shepard, Niklas Luhmann, Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, Konstantinos Karamanlis, and Theodore Schultz.
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 11
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 12
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 13
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 15
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 16
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 17
1914 - 2008
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 18
1914 - 2000
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 19
1914 - 1982
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 20
1914 - 1995
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 21
1914 - 1999
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 22
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 5
1911 - 1998
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 6
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 7
1925 - 1998
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 8
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 9
1907 - 1998
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 10
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1923 - 1998
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 12
1927 - 1998
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 13
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 14
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 15
1907 - 1998
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 16
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 17
Among people born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 11 out of 585. Before him are Geronimo (1829), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Carlos Slim (1940), Pancho Villa (1878), Carlos Santana (1947), and La Malinche (1502). After him are Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946), Cuauhtémoc (1495), Porfirio Díaz (1830), Salma Hayek (1966), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957).
1829 - 1909
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 5
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 7
1878 - 1923
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 9
1502 - 1529
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 10
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 12
1495 - 1525
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 13
1830 - 1915
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 14
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 15
1783 - 1824
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 16
1957 - Present
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 17
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), Laura Esquivel (1950), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Mariano Azuela (1873), Cesar Millan (1969), Amado Nervo (1870), and José Emilio Pacheco (1939).
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 1
1648 - 1695
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 2
1818 - 1883
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 3
1917 - 1986
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 4
1581 - 1639
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 5
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 6
1925 - 1974
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 7
1952 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 8
1873 - 1952
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 9
1969 - Present
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 10
1870 - 1919
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 11
1939 - 2014
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 12