Painter

Paul Gauguin

French artist

1848 - 1903

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Paul Gauguin

His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 109 in 2024). Paul Gauguin is the 21st most popular painter (down from 20th in 2024), the 37th most popular biography from France (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Painter.

Paul Gauguin is most famous for his painting, "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

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HPI

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#37 / 7,658

Paul Gauguin ranks #37 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Paul Gauguin's biography appears in 111 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Painters.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Paul Gauguin ranks 21 out of 2,055. Before him are Edvard Munch, Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Paul Cézanne. After him are Giotto, Donatello, Titian, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, and Wassily Kandinsky.

Most Popular Painters in Wikipedia

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Edvard Munch
1863 - 1944
HPI: 87.17
Rank: 15
Diego Velázquez
1599 - 1660
HPI: 86.97
Rank: 16
Henri Matisse
1869 - 1954
HPI: 86.28
Rank: 17
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
HPI: 86.02
Rank: 18
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1780 - 1867
HPI: 85.42
Rank: 19
Paul Cézanne
1839 - 1906
HPI: 85.32
Rank: 20
Paul Gauguin
1848 - 1903
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 21
Giotto
1267 - 1337
HPI: 85.03
Rank: 22
Donatello
1386 - 1466
HPI: 84.83
Rank: 23
Titian
1488 - 1576
HPI: 84.62
Rank: 24
Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
HPI: 84.52
Rank: 25
El Greco
1541 - 1614
HPI: 84.26
Rank: 26
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
HPI: 84.16
Rank: 27

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Paul Gauguin ranks 1. After him are Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Raja Ravi Varma, Otto of Bavaria, Johann Palisa, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Gauguin ranks 2. Before him is Pope Leo XIII. After him are Theodor Mommsen, Herbert Spencer, Camille Pissarro, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alois Hitler, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Alexander I of Serbia, and Hugo Wolf.

Others Born in 1848

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Paul Gauguin
PAINTER
1848 - 1903
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 1
Octave Mirbeau
WRITER
1848 - 1917
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 2
Vilfredo Pareto
ECONOMIST
1848 - 1923
HPI: 77.84
Rank: 3
Gottlob Frege
MATHEMATICIAN
1848 - 1925
HPI: 76.81
Rank: 4
Raja Ravi Varma
PAINTER
1848 - 1906
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 5
Otto of Bavaria
POLITICIAN
1848 - 1916
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 6
Johann Palisa
ASTRONOMER
1848 - 1925
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 7
Otto Lilienthal
ENGINEER
1848 - 1896
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 8
Joris-Karl Huysmans
WRITER
1848 - 1907
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 9
Gustave Caillebotte
PAINTER
1848 - 1894
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 10
Hugo de Vries
BIOLOGIST
1848 - 1935
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 11
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1848 - 1916
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 12

Others Deceased in 1903

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Pope Leo XIII
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1810 - 1903
HPI: 88.51
Rank: 1
Paul Gauguin
PAINTER
1848 - 1903
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 2
Theodor Mommsen
ARCHAEOLOGIST
1817 - 1903
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 3
Herbert Spencer
PHILOSOPHER
1820 - 1903
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 4
Camille Pissarro
PAINTER
1830 - 1903
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 5
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
POLITICIAN
1830 - 1903
HPI: 78.48
Rank: 6
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
PAINTER
1834 - 1903
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 7
Alois Hitler
PUBLIC WORKER
1837 - 1903
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 8
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
MATHEMATICIAN
1819 - 1903
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 9
Josiah Willard Gibbs
PHYSICIST
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 10
Alexander I of Serbia
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1903
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 11
Hugo Wolf
COMPOSER
1860 - 1903
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 12