1904 - 1973
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly 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 3,264,842 page views. His biography is available in 120 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 117 in 2019). Pablo Neruda is the 71st most popular writer (up from 87th in 2019), the most popular biography from Chile (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Chilean Writer.
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Among writers, Pablo Neruda ranks 71 out of 5,794. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Matsuo Bashō, Rabindranath Tagore, Ayn Rand, Hesiod, and Li Bai. After him are Charles Perrault, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, Lewis Carroll, Romain Rolland, and Marquis de Sade.
1854 - 1891
HPI: 84.36
Rank: 65
1644 - 1694
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 66
1861 - 1941
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 67
1905 - 1982
HPI: 84.20
Rank: 68
800 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 84.17
Rank: 69
701 - 762
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 70
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 71
1628 - 1703
HPI: 83.93
Rank: 72
1920 - 1992
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 73
1876 - 1916
HPI: 83.82
Rank: 74
1832 - 1898
HPI: 83.81
Rank: 75
1866 - 1944
HPI: 83.80
Rank: 76
1740 - 1814
HPI: 83.78
Rank: 77
Among people born in 1904, Pablo Neruda ranks 3. Before him are Salvador Dalí and Deng Xiaoping. After him are Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Seuss, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, B. F. Skinner, Umberto II of Italy, Cary Grant, Johnny Weissmuller, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Jean Gabin. Among people deceased in 1973, Pablo Neruda ranks 4. Before him are Pablo Picasso, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Bruce Lee. After him are David Ben-Gurion, Salvador Allende, Erich von Manstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Fulgencio Batista, Pearl S. Buck, and Henri Charrière.
1904 - 1989
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1904 - 1997
HPI: 84.13
Rank: 2
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 3
1904 - 1942
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 4
1904 - 1991
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 5
1904 - 1918
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 6
1904 - 1990
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 7
1904 - 1983
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 8
1904 - 1986
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 9
1904 - 1984
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 10
1904 - 1967
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 11
1904 - 1976
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 12
1881 - 1973
HPI: 92.24
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - 1973
HPI: 86.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 4
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 5
1908 - 1973
HPI: 82.65
Rank: 6
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 7
1908 - 1973
HPI: 81.33
Rank: 8
1882 - 1973
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 9
1901 - 1973
HPI: 79.27
Rank: 10
1892 - 1973
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 11
1906 - 1973
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 12
Among people born in Chile, Pablo Neruda ranks 1 out of 225. After him are Augusto Pinochet (1915), Salvador Allende (1908), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Michelle Bachelet (1951), Víctor Jara (1932), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Sebastián Piñera (1949), Claudio Arrau (1903), and Violeta Parra (1917).
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 1
1915 - 2006
HPI: 83.82
Rank: 2
1908 - 1973
HPI: 82.65
Rank: 3
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 4
1951 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 5
1932 - 1973
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 6
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 7
1949 - 2020
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
1778 - 1842
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 10
1903 - 1991
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 11
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
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), Nicanor Parra (1914), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Francisco Coloane (1910), José Donoso (1924), and Alberto Hurtado (1901).
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 1
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 2
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 3
1949 - 2020
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 4
1953 - 2003
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 5
1914 - 2018
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 8
1893 - 1948
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 9
1910 - 2002
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 10
1924 - 1996
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 11
1901 - 1952
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 12