1895 - 1952
Paul Éluard (French: [elɥar]), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel ([ɡʁɛ̃dɛl]; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. He adhered to Dadaism and became one of the pillars of Surrealism by opening the way to artistic action politically committed to the Communist Party. During World War II, he was the author of several poems against Nazism that circulated clandestinely. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Éluard has received more than 616,013 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Paul Éluard is the 347th most popular writer (up from 383rd in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from France (up from 434th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Writer.
Paul Éluard is most famous for his poems and his love affair with the artist Gala.
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Among writers, Paul Éluard ranks 347 out of 5,755. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, O. Henry, Jorge Amado, Wilhelm Grimm, Johannes V. Jensen, and Aulus Cornelius Celsus. After him are James Fenimore Cooper, Truman Capote, John Keats, Max Brod, Nâzım Hikmet, and Jacques Prévert.
1772 - 1829
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 341
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 342
1912 - 2001
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 343
1786 - 1859
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 344
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 345
25 BC - 50
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 346
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 347
1789 - 1851
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 348
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 349
1795 - 1821
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 350
1884 - 1968
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 351
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 352
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 353
Among people born in 1895, Paul Éluard ranks 19. Before him are Ernst Jünger, Mikhail Bakhtin, Max Horkheimer, Semyon Timoshenko, Amin al-Husseini, and Paul Hindemith. After him are Dolores Ibárruri, Zog I of Albania, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Henrik Dam, Sergei Yesenin, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1952, Paul Éluard ranks 9. Before him are John Dewey, Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, and Chaim Weizmann. After him are Karen Horney, Benedetto Croce, Walter Schellenberg, Elena of Montenegro, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and Sven Hedin.
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 13
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 14
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 15
1895 - 1970
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 16
1895 - 1974
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 17
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 18
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 19
1895 - 1989
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 20
1895 - 1961
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 21
1895 - 1977
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 22
1895 - 1976
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 23
1895 - 1925
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 24
1895 - 1945
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 25
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 3
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 4
1919 - 1952
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 5
1872 - 1952
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 6
1895 - 1952
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 7
1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 8
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 9
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 10
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 11
1910 - 1952
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 12
1871 - 1952
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 13
1860 - 1952
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 14
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 15
Among people born in France, Paul Éluard ranks 397 out of 6,011. Before him are Ernest Renan (1823), Stephen, King of England (1095), Claude Bernard (1813), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Pierre Bayle (1647), and Eugène François Vidocq (1775). After him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Anouk Aimée (1932), Allan Kardec (1804), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), Jacques Prévert (1900), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930).
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 391
1095 - 1154
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 392
1813 - 1878
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 393
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 394
1647 - 1706
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 395
1775 - 1857
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 396
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 397
1746 - 1818
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 398
1932 - Present
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 399
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 400
1045 - 1105
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 401
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 402
1930 - 2022
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 403
Among writers born in France, Paul Éluard ranks 59. Before him are Prosper Mérimée (1803), Gregory of Tours (538), François Mauriac (1885), Georges Bataille (1897), André Malraux (1901), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732). After him are Jacques Prévert (1900), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Henri Charrière (1906), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), and Théophile Gautier (1811).
1803 - 1870
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 53
538 - 593
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 54
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 55
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 56
1901 - 1976
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 57
1732 - 1799
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 58
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 59
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 60
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 61
1840 - 1897
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 62
1906 - 1973
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 63
1816 - 1882
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 64
1811 - 1872
HPI: 68.41
Rank: 65