1915 - 1980
Roland Gérard Barthes (; French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Barthes has received more than 2,256,809 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Roland Barthes is the 99th most popular philosopher, the 192nd most popular biography from France (down from 190th 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 1,081. Before him are Johann Gottfried Herder, Anaximenes of Miletus, Walter Benjamin, Mencius, Zhuang Zhou, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. After him are Ibn Taymiyyah, Theophrastus, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jacques Derrida, and Aristippus.
1744 - 1803
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 93
585 BC - 525 BC
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 94
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 95
372 BC - 289 BC
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 96
369 BC - 286 BC
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 97
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 98
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 99
1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 100
371 BC - 287 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 101
1767 - 1835
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 102
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 103
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 104
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 105
Among people born in 1915, Roland Barthes ranks 6. Before him are Édith Piaf, Augusto Pinochet, Frank Sinatra, Anthony Quinn, and Ingrid Bergman. After him are Vasily Zaitsev, Moshe Dayan, David Rockefeller, Orson Welles, Paul Samuelson, and Eli Wallach. Among people deceased in 1980, Roland Barthes ranks 9. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Karl Dönitz, Jean Piaget, John Lennon, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Erich Fromm. After him are Steve McQueen, Bon Scott, Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, Oskar Kokoschka, and Henry Miller.
1915 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
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1915 - 2006
HPI: 79.11
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1915 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
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1915 - 2001
HPI: 75.36
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1915 - 1982
HPI: 75.17
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1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
1915 - 1991
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 7
1915 - 1981
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 8
1915 - 2017
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 9
1915 - 1985
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 10
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 11
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1899 - 1980
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 3
1891 - 1980
HPI: 81.39
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1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
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1940 - 1980
HPI: 80.02
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1919 - 1980
HPI: 77.95
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1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
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1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
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1930 - 1980
HPI: 73.26
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1946 - 1980
HPI: 71.64
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1913 - 1980
HPI: 71.38
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1890 - 1980
HPI: 70.87
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1886 - 1980
HPI: 70.68
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1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
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Among people born in France, Roland Barthes ranks 192 out of 6,011. Before him are Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Théodore Géricault (1791), Louis VII of France (1120), Alfred Sisley (1839), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), and Guy of Lusignan (1150). After him are André Breton (1896), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), Jean Racine (1639), Georges Pompidou (1911), and Jacques de Molay (1243).
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
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1791 - 1824
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1120 - 1180
HPI: 74.01
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1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
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1859 - 1935
HPI: 73.95
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1150 - 1194
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 191
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 192
1896 - 1966
HPI: 73.89
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1841 - 1931
HPI: 73.87
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1848 - 1923
HPI: 73.85
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1639 - 1699
HPI: 73.77
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1911 - 1974
HPI: 73.76
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1243 - 1314
HPI: 73.75
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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 Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Simone Weil (1909), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908).
1533 - 1592
HPI: 80.18
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1926 - 1984
HPI: 79.32
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1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
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1079 - 1142
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 7
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 10
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 12
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 13
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 15
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 16