486 BC - 420 BC
Protagoras (; Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Protagoras has received more than 824,830 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Protagoras is the 48th most popular philosopher (up from 55th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Greece (up from 28th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Greek Philosopher.
Protagoras is most famous for his saying "man is the measure of all things."
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Among philosophers, Protagoras ranks 48 out of 1,089. Before him are Parmenides, Origen, Thomas More, Al-Farabi, Michel Foucault, and Karl Popper. After him are Hannah Arendt, Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Zeno of Elea, John Amos Comenius, and Mikhail Bakunin.
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 42
185 - 254
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 43
1478 - 1535
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 44
872 - 951
HPI: 84.41
Rank: 45
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 46
1902 - 1994
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 47
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 48
1906 - 1975
HPI: 84.07
Rank: 49
1859 - 1941
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 50
203 - 270
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 51
490 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 83.73
Rank: 52
1592 - 1670
HPI: 83.39
Rank: 53
1814 - 1876
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 54
Among people born in 486 BC, Protagoras ranks 1. Among people deceased in 420 BC, Protagoras ranks 1. After him are Callicrates, Archidamus II, and Oenopides.
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 1
470 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 2
450 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 3
490 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 4
Among people born in Greece, Protagoras ranks 24 out of 855. Before him are Euripides (-480), Kösem Sultan (1590), Phidias (-490), Thucydides (-460), Sappho (-630), and Aeschylus (-525). After him are Themistocles (-524), Demosthenes (-384), Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478), Leonidas I (-540), Xenophon (-430), and Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493).
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 85.18
Rank: 18
1590 - 1651
HPI: 84.69
Rank: 19
490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 84.62
Rank: 20
460 BC - 397 BC
HPI: 84.56
Rank: 21
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 22
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 84.43
Rank: 23
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 24
524 BC - 459 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 25
384 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 83.72
Rank: 26
1478 - 1546
HPI: 83.72
Rank: 27
540 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 83.58
Rank: 28
430 BC - 354 BC
HPI: 83.41
Rank: 29
1493 - 1536
HPI: 82.24
Rank: 30
Among philosophers born in Greece, Protagoras ranks 8. Before him are Plato (-427), Socrates (-470), Pythagoras (-570), Epicurus (-341), Democritus (-460), and Plutarch (46). After him are Gorgias (-483), Theophrastus (-371), Pyrrho (-365), Antisthenes (-445), Leucippus (-500), and Isocrates (-436).
427 BC - 347 BC
HPI: 95.73
Rank: 2
470 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 95.16
Rank: 3
570 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 89.90
Rank: 4
341 BC - 269 BC
HPI: 88.36
Rank: 5
460 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 86.38
Rank: 6
46 - 127
HPI: 85.27
Rank: 7
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 8
483 BC - 375 BC
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 9
371 BC - 287 BC
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 10
365 BC - 275 BC
HPI: 79.42
Rank: 11
445 BC - 365 BC
HPI: 79.27
Rank: 12
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 13
436 BC - 338 BC
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 14