1908 - 2006
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raja Rao has received more than 1,051,103 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Raja Rao is the 6,148th most popular writer (down from 5,457th in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from India (down from 787th in 2019) and the 109th most popular Indian Writer.
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Among writers, Raja Rao ranks 6,148 out of 5,755. Before him are William Kamkwamba, Geoff Johns, Anne Waldman, Sherin Khankan, Jérôme Ferrari, and John Stossel. After him are Javier Sicilia, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Peter Pišťanek, Rubén Gallego, Alexandre Jardin, and Maylis de Kerangal.
1987 - Present
HPI: 36.18
Rank: 6,142
1973 - Present
HPI: 36.15
Rank: 6,143
1945 - Present
HPI: 36.15
Rank: 6,144
1974 - Present
HPI: 36.13
Rank: 6,145
1968 - Present
HPI: 36.13
Rank: 6,146
1947 - Present
HPI: 36.10
Rank: 6,147
1908 - 2006
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 6,148
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.08
Rank: 6,149
1967 - Present
HPI: 36.08
Rank: 6,150
1960 - 2015
HPI: 36.06
Rank: 6,151
1968 - Present
HPI: 36.05
Rank: 6,152
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.04
Rank: 6,153
1967 - Present
HPI: 36.01
Rank: 6,154
Among people born in 1908, Raja Rao ranks 373. Before him are Arthur Goldberg, Jackie Fields, Rufino Santos, Polly Ann Young, Eddie Hapgood, and Gene Raymond. After him are Dennis Morgan, Will Lee, and Penny Singleton. Among people deceased in 2006, Raja Rao ranks 358. Before him are Irving Kaplansky, Shekhar Mehta, Ed Bradley, Noor Hassanali, Nadira, and Gernot Jurtin. After him are Surinder Kaur, Elizabeth Allen, Mervyn Wood, Corinne Rey-Bellet, Esther Victoria Abraham, and Mohammed Bijeh.
1908 - 1990
HPI: 38.01
Rank: 367
1908 - 1987
HPI: 37.93
Rank: 368
1908 - 1973
HPI: 37.78
Rank: 369
1908 - 1997
HPI: 37.69
Rank: 370
1908 - 1973
HPI: 37.06
Rank: 371
1908 - 1998
HPI: 36.32
Rank: 372
1908 - 2006
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 373
1908 - 1994
HPI: 35.47
Rank: 374
1908 - 1982
HPI: 34.30
Rank: 375
1908 - 2003
HPI: 33.42
Rank: 376
1917 - 2006
HPI: 37.50
Rank: 352
1945 - 2006
HPI: 37.42
Rank: 353
1941 - 2006
HPI: 36.81
Rank: 354
1918 - 2006
HPI: 36.44
Rank: 355
1932 - 2006
HPI: 36.39
Rank: 356
1955 - 2006
HPI: 36.34
Rank: 357
1908 - 2006
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 358
1929 - 2006
HPI: 36.01
Rank: 359
1929 - 2006
HPI: 35.74
Rank: 360
1917 - 2006
HPI: 35.58
Rank: 361
1972 - 2006
HPI: 35.39
Rank: 362
1916 - 2006
HPI: 35.32
Rank: 363
1982 - 2006
HPI: 35.32
Rank: 364
Among people born in India, Raja Rao ranks 896 out of 1,493. Before him are Ruby Myers (1907), B. R. Chopra (1914), Saroo Brierley (1981), Silk Smitha (1960), S. Jaishankar (1955), and Arijit Singh (1987). After him are Gautam Adani (1962), Reema Lagoo (1958), Farah Khan (1965), Mehboob Khan (1907), Gulshan Kumar (1956), and Rajkumar Hirani (1962).
1907 - 1983
HPI: 36.26
Rank: 890
1914 - 2008
HPI: 36.21
Rank: 891
1981 - Present
HPI: 36.19
Rank: 892
1960 - 1996
HPI: 36.18
Rank: 893
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.14
Rank: 894
1987 - Present
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 895
1908 - 2006
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 896
1962 - Present
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 897
1958 - 2017
HPI: 36.05
Rank: 898
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.05
Rank: 899
1907 - 1964
HPI: 35.96
Rank: 900
1956 - 1997
HPI: 35.94
Rank: 901
1962 - Present
HPI: 35.90
Rank: 902
Among writers born in India, Raja Rao ranks 109. Before him are Ram Swarup (1920), Nayantara Sahgal (1927), Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), and Saroo Brierley (1981). After him are Kiran Desai (1971), Sarojini Sahoo (1956), Rupi Kaur (1992), Shobhaa De (1948), Aravind Adiga (1974), and Sushmita Banerjee (1964).
1920 - 1998
HPI: 39.78
Rank: 103
1927 - Present
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 104
1950 - 2020
HPI: 37.91
Rank: 105
1952 - Present
HPI: 37.66
Rank: 106
1944 - 2021
HPI: 37.21
Rank: 107
1981 - Present
HPI: 36.19
Rank: 108
1908 - 2006
HPI: 36.09
Rank: 109
1971 - Present
HPI: 35.81
Rank: 110
1956 - Present
HPI: 34.52
Rank: 111
1992 - Present
HPI: 34.42
Rank: 112
1948 - Present
HPI: 34.38
Rank: 113
1974 - Present
HPI: 33.76
Rank: 114
1964 - 2013
HPI: 33.52
Rank: 115