1937 - Today
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. He has directed the science fiction horror film Alien (1979), the neo-noir dystopian film Blade Runner (1982), the road adventure film Thelma & Louise (1991), the historical drama film Gladiator (2000), the war film Black Hawk Down (2001) and the science fiction film The Martian (2015). Scott began his career in advertising, where he honed his filmmaking skills by making inventive mini-films for television commercials, and 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 10,131,672 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Ridley Scott is the 16th most popular film director (down from 14th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 99th 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 16 out of 1,580. Before him are Woody Allen, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. After him are Leni Riefenstahl, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Miloš Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci.
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 11
1929 - 1989
HPI: 81.54
Rank: 12
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 13
1932 - 1986
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 14
1922 - 1975
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 15
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 16
1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 17
1906 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 18
1900 - 1983
HPI: 80.29
Rank: 19
1932 - 2018
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 20
1930 - Present
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 21
1941 - 2018
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 22
Among people born in 1937, Ridley Scott ranks 8. Before him are Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Harald V of Norway, Dustin Hoffman, and Valentina Tereshkova. After him are Jane Fonda, Queen Sonja of Norway, Boris Spassky, Vanessa Redgrave, Queen Paola of Belgium, and Renzo Piano.
1937 - Present
HPI: 84.81
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 84.41
Rank: 3
1937 - Present
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 4
1937 - Present
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 5
1937 - Present
HPI: 82.37
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 81.67
Rank: 7
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 8
1937 - Present
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 9
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 11
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 12
1937 - Present
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 13
1937 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 14
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ridley Scott ranks 108 out of 6,924. Before him are T. E. Lawrence (1888), George Harrison (1943), George V (1865), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Aldous Huxley (1894), and Blackbeard (1680). After him are Henry VI of England (1421), Elton John (1947), Alan Rickman (1946), Edward VII (1841), J. J. Thomson (1856), and H. G. Wells (1866).
1888 - 1935
HPI: 80.79
Rank: 102
1943 - 2001
HPI: 80.76
Rank: 103
1865 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 104
1758 - 1805
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 105
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 106
1680 - 1718
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 107
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 108
1421 - 1471
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 109
1947 - Present
HPI: 80.63
Rank: 110
1946 - 2016
HPI: 80.54
Rank: 111
1841 - 1910
HPI: 80.49
Rank: 112
1856 - 1940
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 113
1866 - 1946
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 114
Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Ridley Scott ranks 2. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock (1899). After him are Ken Loach (1936), Alan Parker (1944), Richard Attenborough (1923), David Lean (1908), Peter Brook (1925), Christopher Nolan (1970), Tony Scott (1944), Peter Greenaway (1942), Guy Ritchie (1968), and Danny Boyle (1956).
1899 - 1980
HPI: 86.80
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 3
1944 - 2020
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 4
1923 - 2014
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 5
1908 - 1991
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 6
1925 - Present
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 7
1970 - Present
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 8
1944 - 2012
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 9
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 10
1968 - Present
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 11
1956 - Present
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 12