1915 - 1980
Roland Gérard Barthes (; French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Barthes has received more than 1,495,796 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Roland Barthes is the 99th most popular philosopher (down from 94th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from France (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Philosopher.
Roland Barthes is most famous for his book "The Death of the Author." In this book, he argues that the author's intention is not the final word on a text. Rather, the text should be interpreted and analyzed from the perspective of the reader.
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Among philosophers, Roland Barthes ranks 99 out of 1,089. Before him are Gorgias, Isidore of Seville, Athanasius of Alexandria, Al-Kindi, Zhuang Zhou, and Gregory of Nazianzus. After him are Philo, Theophrastus, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Meister Eckhart, Gilles Deleuze, and Ibn Taymiyyah.
483 BC - 375 BC
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 93
560 - 636
HPI: 80.23
Rank: 94
295 - 373
HPI: 80.20
Rank: 95
801 - 866
HPI: 80.17
Rank: 96
369 BC - 286 BC
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 97
329 - 389
HPI: 80.08
Rank: 98
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 99
15 BC - 45
HPI: 79.98
Rank: 100
371 BC - 287 BC
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 101
1767 - 1835
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 102
1260 - 1328
HPI: 79.81
Rank: 103
1925 - 1995
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 104
1263 - 1328
HPI: 79.65
Rank: 105
Among people born in 1915, Roland Barthes ranks 7. Before him are Édith Piaf, Augusto Pinochet, Frank Sinatra, Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, and David Rockefeller. After him are Vasily Zaitsev, Moshe Dayan, Orson Welles, Arthur Miller, Eli Wallach, and Paul Samuelson. Among people deceased in 1980, Roland Barthes ranks 11. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Jean Piaget, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Erich Fromm, Jesse Owens, and Steve McQueen. After him are Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, Marshall McLuhan, Henry Miller, Colonel Sanders, and Tamara de Lempicka.
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 1
1915 - 2006
HPI: 83.82
Rank: 2
1915 - 1998
HPI: 82.15
Rank: 3
1915 - 2001
HPI: 81.51
Rank: 4
1915 - 1982
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 5
1915 - 2017
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 6
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 7
1915 - 1991
HPI: 79.95
Rank: 8
1915 - 1981
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 9
1915 - 1985
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 10
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 11
1915 - 2014
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 12
1915 - 2009
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 13
1891 - 1980
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 5
1896 - 1980
HPI: 85.03
Rank: 6
1919 - 1980
HPI: 83.60
Rank: 7
1900 - 1980
HPI: 83.41
Rank: 8
1913 - 1980
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 9
1930 - 1980
HPI: 80.49
Rank: 10
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 11
1946 - 1980
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 12
1886 - 1980
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 13
1911 - 1980
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 14
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 15
1890 - 1980
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 16
1898 - 1980
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 17
Among people born in France, Roland Barthes ranks 190 out of 5,234. Before him are Petronius (27), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Charles IV of France (1294), Pope Benedict XII (1280), Honoré Daumier (1808), and Saint Roch (1295). After him are Gustave Doré (1832), Henri Rousseau (1844), Henry II of England (1133), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Jean Racine (1639), and Margaret of Valois (1553).
27 - 66
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 184
1873 - 1897
HPI: 80.20
Rank: 185
1294 - 1328
HPI: 80.17
Rank: 186
1280 - 1342
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 187
1808 - 1879
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 188
1295 - 1327
HPI: 80.08
Rank: 189
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 190
1832 - 1883
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 191
1844 - 1910
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 192
1133 - 1189
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 193
1619 - 1655
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 194
1639 - 1699
HPI: 79.98
Rank: 195
1553 - 1615
HPI: 79.98
Rank: 196
Among philosophers born in France, Roland Barthes ranks 10. Before him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809). After him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Charles Fourier (1772), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Simone Weil (1909).
1533 - 1592
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 4
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 5
1859 - 1941
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 6
1079 - 1142
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 7
1530 - 1596
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 10
1925 - 1995
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 79.09
Rank: 12
1760 - 1825
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 13
1908 - 1961
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 15
1909 - 1943
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 16