1920 - 2000
Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (born Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000) was a French technical drawer, best known for being the principal fabricator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a 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 252,557 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Plantard is the 1,742nd most popular writer (down from 1,602nd in 2019), the 1,963rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,778th in 2019) and the 249th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Pierre Plantard ranks 1,742 out of 5,755. Before him are Cristóbal de Morales, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Konstantin Ushinsky, Robert Cialdini, Sophie de Condorcet, and Jurji Zaydan. After him are Constantijn Huygens, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Horacio Quiroga, Edward Lear, João de Barros, and Mór Jókai.
1600 - 1655
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,736
1874 - 1938
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,737
1823 - 1870
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,738
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,739
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,740
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,741
1920 - 2000
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,742
1596 - 1687
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,743
1916 - 1992
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,744
1878 - 1937
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,745
1812 - 1888
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 1,746
1496 - 1570
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 1,747
1825 - 1904
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 1,748
Among people born in 1920, Pierre Plantard ranks 110. Before him are Luisa Cuesta, Roberto Calvi, DeForest Kelley, Jack Warden, Heinz Hitler, and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy. After him are Eileen Chang, Tonino Guerra, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Peggy Lee, Martine Carol, and Abe Lenstra. Among people deceased in 2000, Pierre Plantard ranks 72. Before him are Phạm Văn Đồng, Claude Sautet, Barbara Cartland, Libertad Lamarque, Franck Pourcel, and Jacques Chaban-Delmas. After him are Ahmet Kaya, Roger Peyrefitte, Hubert Maga, Domingos da Guia, Charles M. Schulz, and Yasuo Suzuki.
1920 - 2018
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 104
1920 - 1982
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 105
1920 - 1999
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 106
1920 - 2006
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 107
1920 - 1942
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 108
1920 - 2011
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 109
1920 - 2000
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 110
1920 - 1995
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 111
1920 - 2012
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 112
1920 - 2007
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 113
1920 - 2002
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 114
1920 - 1967
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 115
1920 - 1985
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 116
1906 - 2000
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 66
1924 - 2000
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 67
1901 - 2000
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 68
1908 - 2000
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 69
1913 - 2000
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 70
1915 - 2000
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 71
1920 - 2000
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 72
1957 - 2000
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 73
1907 - 2000
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 74
1916 - 2000
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 75
1912 - 2000
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 76
1922 - 2000
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 77
1913 - 2000
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 78
Among people born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 1,963 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (1257), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Hugh Magnus (1007), Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920), and François Furet (1927). After him are Henri Duparc (1848), Catherine Spaak (1945), Pierre Reverdy (1889), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Léon Brillouin (1889), and Marie-Christine Barrault (1944).
1714 - 1785
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,957
1257 - 1310
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,958
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,959
1007 - 1025
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,960
1920 - 2011
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,961
1927 - 1997
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,962
1920 - 2000
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,963
1848 - 1933
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,964
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,965
1889 - 1960
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,966
1707 - 1771
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,967
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 1,968
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,969
Among writers born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 249. Before him are Rodulfus Glaber (985), Henri de Régnier (1864), François Pierre La Varenne (1618), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Jules Romains (1885), and Sophie de Condorcet (1764). After him are Pierre Reverdy (1889), Marcel Schwob (1867), Christian Jacq (1947), Thomas Merton (1915), Théodore de Banville (1823), and Joseph Joubert (1754).
985 - 1047
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 243
1864 - 1936
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 244
1618 - 1678
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 245
1200 - 1238
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 246
1885 - 1972
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 247
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 248
1920 - 2000
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 249
1889 - 1960
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 250
1867 - 1905
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 251
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 252
1915 - 1968
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 253
1823 - 1891
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 254
1754 - 1824
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 255