1904 - 1973
Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pablo Neruda has received more than 5,075,909 page views. His biography is available in 123 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 120 in 2019). Pablo Neruda is the 76th most popular writer (down from 71st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Chile (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Chilean Writer.
Pablo Neruda is most famous for his book "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" which was published in 1924.
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Among writers, Pablo Neruda ranks 76 out of 5,755. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, Astrid Lindgren, Giorgio Vasari, and Marquis de Sade. After him are Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, Paulo Coelho, Nikolai Gogol, and Stephen King.
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 70
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 71
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 72
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 73
1511 - 1574
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 74
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 75
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 76
1899 - 1986
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 77
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 78
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 79
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 80
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 81
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 82
Among people born in 1904, Pablo Neruda ranks 4. Before him are Salvador Dalí, Deng Xiaoping, and Reinhard Heydrich. After him are Dr. Seuss, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Cary Grant, Umberto II of Italy, B. F. Skinner, Jean Gabin, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Johnny Weissmuller. Among people deceased in 1973, Pablo Neruda ranks 4. Before him are Pablo Picasso, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Bruce Lee. After him are Salvador Allende, David Ben-Gurion, Erich von Manstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Fulgencio Batista, Pearl S. Buck, and Ivan Konev.
1904 - 1989
HPI: 85.77
Rank: 1
1904 - 1997
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 2
1904 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 3
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 4
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 5
1904 - 1918
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 6
1904 - 1986
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 7
1904 - 1983
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 8
1904 - 1990
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 9
1904 - 1976
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 10
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 11
1904 - 1984
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 12
1881 - 1973
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 2
1940 - 1973
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 3
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 4
1908 - 1973
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 5
1886 - 1973
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 6
1887 - 1973
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 7
1908 - 1973
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 8
1882 - 1973
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 9
1901 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 10
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 11
1897 - 1973
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 12
Among people born in Chile, Pablo Neruda ranks 2 out of 265. Before him are Augusto Pinochet (1915). After him are Salvador Allende (1908), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Michelle Bachelet (1951), Víctor Jara (1932), Sebastián Piñera (1949), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Manuel Pellegrini (1953), Claudio Arrau (1903), and Luis Sepúlveda (1949).
1915 - 2006
HPI: 79.11
Rank: 1
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 2
1908 - 1973
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 3
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 4
1951 - Present
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 5
1932 - 1973
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 6
1949 - 2024
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 7
1889 - 1957
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 8
1778 - 1842
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 10
1903 - 1991
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 11
1949 - 2020
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Chile, Pablo Neruda ranks 1. After him are Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Roberto Bolaño (1953), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Nicanor Parra (1914), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Vicente Huidobro (1893), José Donoso (1924), Cristina Calderón (1928), and Alberto Hurtado (1901).
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 1
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 2
1889 - 1957
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 3
1949 - 2020
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 4
1953 - 2003
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 6
1914 - 2018
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 8
1893 - 1948
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 9
1924 - 1996
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10
1928 - 2022
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 11
1901 - 1952
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 12