1937 - Today
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. He is best known for directing films in the science fiction, crime and historical drama genres. His work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ridley Scott has received more than 17,910,497 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Ridley Scott is the 10th most popular film director (up from 16th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 107th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Film Director.
Ridley Scott is most famous for directing the films Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, and Black Hawk Down.
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Among film directors, Ridley Scott ranks 10 out of 1,581. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, and Woody Allen. After him are Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 5
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 6
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 7
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 9
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 11
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 13
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 14
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 15
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1937, Ridley Scott ranks 7. Before him are Saddam Hussein, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Harald V of Norway, Valentina Tereshkova, and Jack Nicholson. After him are Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Renzo Piano, Bobby Charlton, and Queen Sonja of Norway.
1937 - 2006
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.04
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 3
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 4
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 5
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 7
1937 - Present
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 8
1937 - Present
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 9
1937 - 2021
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 11
1937 - 2023
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 12
1937 - Present
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ridley Scott ranks 74 out of 7,765. Before him are Alex Ferguson (1941), James VI and I (1566), Neville Chamberlain (1869), David Livingstone (1813), J. M. W. Turner (1775), and Edward III of England (1312). After him are Edward II of England (1284), William of Ockham (1285), Harold Harefoot (1016), John Dee (1527), David Bowie (1947), and Mary Shelley (1797).
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 68
1566 - 1625
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 69
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 70
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 71
1775 - 1851
HPI: 76.71
Rank: 72
1312 - 1377
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 73
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 74
1284 - 1327
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 75
1285 - 1347
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 76
1016 - 1040
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 77
1527 - 1608
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 78
1947 - 2016
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 79
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 80
Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ridley Scott ranks 2. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock (1899). After him are Ken Loach (1936), Richard Attenborough (1923), Alan Parker (1944), David Lean (1908), Christopher Nolan (1970), Tony Scott (1944), Peter Brook (1925), Peter Greenaway (1942), Guy Ritchie (1968), and Danny Boyle (1956).
1899 - 1980
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 3
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 4
1944 - 2020
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 5
1908 - 1991
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 6
1970 - Present
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 7
1944 - 2012
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 8
1925 - 2022
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 9
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 10
1968 - Present
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 11
1956 - Present
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 12