1835 - 1903
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed) – April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Du Chaillu has received more than 105,500 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Du Chaillu is the 4,150th most popular writer (up from 4,412th in 2019), the 3,814th most popular biography from France (down from 3,750th in 2019) and the 500th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 4,150 out of 5,755. Before him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Michel Deguy, I. A. L. Diamond, Rodolfo Walsh, Fedde Schurer, and Pepetela. After him are Platon Oyunsky, Wen Yiduo, Ivan Shmelyov, Sarah Kane, Alan Paton, and Ion Druță.
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 4,144
1930 - 2022
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 4,145
1920 - 1988
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 4,146
1927 - 1977
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 4,147
1898 - 1968
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 4,148
1941 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 4,149
1835 - 1903
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 4,150
1893 - 1939
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 4,151
1899 - 1946
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 4,152
1873 - 1950
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 4,153
1971 - 1999
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 4,154
1903 - 1988
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 4,155
1928 - 2023
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 4,156
Among people born in 1835, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 64. Before him are Rain-in-the-Face, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Germanus V of Constantinople, Désirée Artôt, Manuel Quintana, and Justo Rufino Barrios. After him are Tommaso Salvadori, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Hashimoto Gahō, Eduardo Pondal, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ramón Barros Luco. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 58. Before him are Emily Warren Roebling, Konstantinos Paspatis, Henri Alexis Brialmont, George Gissing, Girolamo de Rada, and Gustav Radde. After him are Victor Meirelles, Petko Karavelov, Robert Planquette, Nicolaas Beets, František Ladislav Rieger, and István Bittó.
1835 - 1835
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 58
1835 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 59
1835 - 1920
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 60
1835 - 1907
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 61
1835 - 1906
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 62
1835 - 1885
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 63
1835 - 1903
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 64
1835 - 1923
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 65
1835 - 1900
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 66
1835 - 1908
HPI: 47.41
Rank: 67
1835 - 1917
HPI: 47.38
Rank: 68
1835 - 1915
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 69
1835 - 1919
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 70
1843 - 1903
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 52
1878 - 1903
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 53
1821 - 1903
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 54
1857 - 1903
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 55
1814 - 1903
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 56
1831 - 1903
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 57
1835 - 1903
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 58
1832 - 1903
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 59
1843 - 1903
HPI: 47.00
Rank: 60
1848 - 1903
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 61
1814 - 1903
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 62
1818 - 1903
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 63
1822 - 1903
HPI: 44.83
Rank: 64
Among people born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 3,814 out of 6,011. Before him are Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Christophe Dugarry (1972), Paul Paray (1886), Michel Deguy (1930), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), and François de Tournon (1489). After him are Christophe Gans (1960), Louis Buffet (1818), Jean Bouin (1888), Daniel Morelon (1944), Victor Baltard (1805), and Jeannie Longo (1958).
1777 - 1851
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 3,808
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 3,809
1886 - 1979
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 3,810
1930 - 2022
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 3,811
1747 - 1827
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 3,812
1489 - 1562
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 3,813
1835 - 1903
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 3,814
1960 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 3,815
1818 - 1898
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 3,816
1888 - 1914
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 3,817
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 3,818
1805 - 1874
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 3,819
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 3,820
Among writers born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 500. Before him are Guillaume Musso (1974), Olivier de Serres (1539), Marcel Arland (1899), Claude Aveline (1901), Abel Bonnard (1883), and Michel Deguy (1930). After him are François Cavanna (1923), François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592), Johann Fischart (1546), Georges Courteline (1858), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), and Hervé Guibert (1955).
1974 - Present
HPI: 48.39
Rank: 494
1539 - 1619
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 495
1899 - 1986
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 496
1901 - 1992
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 497
1883 - 1968
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 498
1930 - 2022
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 499
1835 - 1903
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 500
1923 - 2014
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 501
1592 - 1662
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 502
1546 - 1590
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 503
1858 - 1929
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 504
1947 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 505
1955 - 1991
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 506