1906 - 1977
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roberto Rossellini has received more than 1,957,400 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Roberto Rossellini is the 34th most popular film director, the 311th most popular biography from Italy (up from 326th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Film Director.
Roberto Rossellini is most famous for his neorealist films, which were a reaction to the artificiality of the Hollywood studio system.
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Among film directors, Roberto Rossellini ranks 34 out of 1,581. Before him are David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, George Lucas, Fritz Lang, Quentin Tarantino, and Billy Wilder. After him are John Ford, Paul Verhoeven, Vittorio De Sica, Wim Wenders, Andrzej Wajda, and Ken Loach.
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.15
Rank: 28
1941 - 1996
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 29
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 30
1890 - 1976
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 31
1963 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 32
1906 - 2002
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 33
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 34
1894 - 1973
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 35
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 36
1901 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 37
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 38
1926 - 2016
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 39
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 40
Among people born in 1906, Roberto Rossellini ranks 14. Before him are Grace Hopper, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, Ilse Koch, and Billy Wilder. After him are Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Sergei Korolev, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Emmanuel Levinas. Among people deceased in 1977, Roberto Rossellini ranks 7. Before him are Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, Maria Callas, Vladimir Nabokov, Wernher von Braun, and Anthony Eden. After him are Ludwig Erhard, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Jacques Prévert, René Goscinny, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, and Joan Crawford.
1906 - 1992
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 8
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 9
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 10
1906 - 1978
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 11
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 12
1906 - 2002
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 13
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 14
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 15
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 16
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 17
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 18
1906 - 1975
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 19
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 20
1889 - 1977
HPI: 86.83
Rank: 1
1935 - 1977
HPI: 83.18
Rank: 2
1923 - 1977
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 3
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 4
1912 - 1977
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 5
1897 - 1977
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 6
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 7
1897 - 1977
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 8
1887 - 1977
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 9
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 10
1926 - 1977
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 11
1895 - 1977
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 12
1904 - 1977
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 13
Among people born in Italy, Roberto Rossellini ranks 311 out of 4,668. Before him are Torquato Tasso (1544), Pope John XII (937), Pope Paschal I (775), Pope Benedict IX (1012), Pope John XIX (975), and Monica Bellucci (1964). After him are Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751), Pope Gregory IV (790), Sallust (-86), Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519), Pope Sixtus I (42), and Giuliano de' Medici (1453).
1544 - 1595
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 305
937 - 964
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 306
775 - 824
HPI: 71.32
Rank: 307
1012 - 1055
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 308
975 - 1032
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 309
1964 - Present
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 310
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 311
1751 - 1825
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 312
790 - 844
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 313
86 BC - 34 BC
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 314
1519 - 1574
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 315
42 - 124
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 316
1453 - 1478
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 317
Among film directors born in Italy, Roberto Rossellini ranks 7. Before him are Federico Fellini (1920), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), and Michelangelo Antonioni (1912). After him are Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Frank Capra (1897), Dario Argento (1940), and Lina Wertmüller (1928).
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 1
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 2
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 3
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 4
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 5
1912 - 2007
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 6
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 7
1901 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 8
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 9
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 10
1897 - 1991
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 12
1928 - 2021
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 13