1920 - 2000
Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (born Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the elaborate Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a direct and legitimate male line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Plantard has received more than 232,934 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pierre Plantard is the 1,603rd most popular writer (up from 1,719th in 2019), the 1,781st most popular biography from France (up from 1,827th in 2019) and the 232nd most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Pierre Plantard ranks 1,603 out of 5,794. Before him are Lewis Mumford, Eugene Nida, Nina Berberova, Alexander Belyaev, Anna de Noailles, and Ivan Kotliarevsky. After him are Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Bishop, Ken Wilber, Bhāsa, Paul Gerhardt, and Hannah Szenes.
1895 - 1990
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 1,597
1914 - 2011
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 1,598
1901 - 1993
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 1,599
1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,600
1876 - 1933
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,601
1769 - 1838
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,602
1920 - 2000
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,603
1797 - 1858
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,604
1911 - 1979
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,605
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,606
200 - 300
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,607
1607 - 1676
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 1,608
1921 - 1944
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 1,609
Among people born in 1920, Pierre Plantard ranks 106. Before him are Richard Farnsworth, Marcial Maciel, DeForest Kelley, Jack Warden, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, and Bruno Maderna. After him are Don Taylor, Richard Adams, Gottfried Böhm, Eileen Chang, Heinz Hitler, and Ray Harryhausen. Among people deceased in 2000, Pierre Plantard ranks 63. Before him are Keizō Obuchi, Anatoly Sobchak, Lolo Ferrari, Richard Farnsworth, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, and Ivan Stambolić. After him are Giorgio Bassani, Noboru Takeshita, Baden Powell, Phạm Văn Đồng, Kemal Sunal, and Jacques Chaban-Delmas.
1920 - 2000
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 100
1920 - 2008
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 101
1920 - 1999
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 102
1920 - 2006
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 103
1920 - 1944
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 104
1920 - 1973
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 105
1920 - 2000
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 106
1920 - 1998
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 107
1920 - 2016
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 108
1920 - Present
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 109
1920 - 1995
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 110
1920 - 1942
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 111
1920 - 2013
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 112
1937 - 2000
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 57
1937 - 2000
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 58
1963 - 2000
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 59
1920 - 2000
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 60
1902 - 2000
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 61
1936 - 2000
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 62
1920 - 2000
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 63
1916 - 2000
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 64
1924 - 2000
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 65
1937 - 2000
HPI: 66.76
Rank: 66
1906 - 2000
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 67
1944 - 2000
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 68
1915 - 2000
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 69
Among people born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 1,781 out of 5,234. Before him are Michel Debré (1912), Paul Painlevé (1863), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), Felix of Valois (1127), and Anna de Noailles (1876). After him are Guy Roux (1938), David d'Angers (1788), Blandina (101), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Henri Wallon (1879), and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777).
1912 - 1996
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 1,775
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 1,776
1753 - 1809
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 1,777
1668 - 1710
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 1,778
1127 - 1212
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,779
1876 - 1933
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,780
1920 - 2000
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 1,781
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,782
1788 - 1856
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,783
101 - 177
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,784
1707 - 1771
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,785
1879 - 1962
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,786
1777 - 1850
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,787
Among writers born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 232. Before him are Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), Théodore de Banville (1823), Jean-François Marmontel (1723), Monique Wittig (1935), Marie de Gournay (1565), and Anna de Noailles (1876). After him are Robert de Boron (1110), Jean d'Ormesson (1925), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), Thomas Merton (1915), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), and Tristan Corbière (1845).
1180 - 1215
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 226
1823 - 1891
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 227
1723 - 1799
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 228
1935 - 2003
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 229
1565 - 1645
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 230
1876 - 1933
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 231
1920 - 2000
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 232
1110 - 1300
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 233
1925 - 2017
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 234
1844 - 1910
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 235
1915 - 1968
HPI: 66.76
Rank: 236
1734 - 1793
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 237
1845 - 1875
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 238