1921 - 2015
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of India, which started in 1951.R. K. Laxman started his career as a part-time cartoonist, working mostly for local newspapers and magazines. While as a college student, he illustrated his older brother R. K. Narayan's stories in The Hindu. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. K. Laxman has received more than 1,432,548 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. R. K. Laxman is the 135th most popular comic artist, the 642nd most popular biography from India (up from 669th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Comic Artist.
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Among comic artists, R. K. Laxman ranks 135 out of 174. Before him are François Bourgeon, Tsutomu Nihei, John Buscema, George Herriman, Seishi Kishimoto, and Hiroyuki Takei. After him are Moyoco Anno, Kouta Hirano, Tooru Fujisawa, Raymond Briggs, Harvey Kurtzman, and Inio Asano.
1945 - Present
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 129
1971 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 130
1927 - 2002
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 131
1880 - 1944
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 132
1974 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 133
1972 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 134
1921 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 135
1971 - Present
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 136
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 137
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 138
1934 - 2022
HPI: 43.10
Rank: 139
1924 - 1993
HPI: 43.01
Rank: 140
1980 - Present
HPI: 42.90
Rank: 141
Among people born in 1921, R. K. Laxman ranks 354. Before him are Big Walter Horton, Farley Mowat, Peggy Rea, Joe Sutter, Vera-Ellen, and Ernest Gold. After him are Sam Tingle, Susan Peters, Edmondo Fabbri, Ann Savage, Seymour Benzer, and Nelson Riddle. Among people deceased in 2015, R. K. Laxman ranks 351. Before him are Mate Trojanović, Josefa Francisco, Mark Murphy, Héctor Salva, Karin Söder, and Rico Rodriguez. After him are Dave Mackay, Csaba Fenyvesi, Kenji Goto, Coleen Gray, Dominique Dropsy, and Ernst Larsen.
1921 - 1981
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 348
1921 - 2014
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 349
1921 - 2011
HPI: 43.98
Rank: 350
1921 - 2016
HPI: 43.96
Rank: 351
1921 - 1981
HPI: 43.76
Rank: 352
1921 - 1999
HPI: 43.62
Rank: 353
1921 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 354
1921 - 2008
HPI: 43.59
Rank: 355
1921 - 1952
HPI: 43.49
Rank: 356
1921 - 1995
HPI: 43.36
Rank: 357
1921 - 2008
HPI: 42.95
Rank: 358
1921 - 2007
HPI: 42.91
Rank: 359
1921 - 1985
HPI: 42.77
Rank: 360
1930 - 2015
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 345
1954 - 2015
HPI: 43.74
Rank: 346
1932 - 2015
HPI: 43.73
Rank: 347
1939 - 2015
HPI: 43.71
Rank: 348
1928 - 2015
HPI: 43.70
Rank: 349
1934 - 2015
HPI: 43.65
Rank: 350
1921 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 351
1934 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 352
1943 - 2015
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 353
1967 - 2015
HPI: 43.51
Rank: 354
1922 - 2015
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 355
1951 - 2015
HPI: 43.46
Rank: 356
1926 - 2015
HPI: 43.44
Rank: 357
Among people born in India, R. K. Laxman ranks 642 out of 1,493. Before him are Amarinder Singh (1942), Shatrughan Sinha (1945), Raj Reddy (1937), Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), and Nana Patekar (1951). After him are Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Sam Manekshaw (1914), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), and Sheila Dikshit (1938).
1942 - Present
HPI: 43.73
Rank: 636
1945 - Present
HPI: 43.70
Rank: 637
1937 - Present
HPI: 43.69
Rank: 638
1895 - 1951
HPI: 43.68
Rank: 639
1941 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 640
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 641
1921 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 642
1918 - 2016
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 643
1939 - 2023
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 644
1872 - 1953
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 645
1914 - 2008
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 646
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.42
Rank: 647
1938 - 2019
HPI: 43.41
Rank: 648
Among comic artists born in India, R. K. Laxman ranks 1.