1914 - 1980
Romain Gary (pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (pronounced [kat͡sɛf], and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Romain Gary has received more than 1,046,607 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Romain Gary is the 368th most popular writer (down from 308th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 5th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Writer.
Romain Gary was a French writer who was most famous for his novels "The Roots of Heaven" and "The Life Before Us."
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Among writers, Romain Gary ranks 368 out of 5,755. Before him are Pär Lagerkvist, Alphonse Daudet, Anne Brontë, Henri Charrière, Cyrano de Bergerac, and William Wordsworth. After him are Margaret Atwood, Joseph Roth, Henry James, Arthur de Gobineau, Ken Follett, and Kenzaburō Ōe.
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 362
1840 - 1897
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 363
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 364
1906 - 1973
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 365
1619 - 1655
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 366
1770 - 1850
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 367
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 368
1939 - Present
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 369
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 370
1843 - 1916
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 371
1816 - 1882
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 372
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 373
1935 - Present
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 374
Among people born in 1914, Romain Gary ranks 13. Before him are Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Aribert Heim, and Alec Guinness. After him are Julio Cortázar, Bohumil Hrabal, Octavio Paz, William S. Burroughs, Richard Widmark, and Lída Baarová. Among people deceased in 1980, Romain Gary ranks 19. Before him are Colonel Sanders, Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Miller, Tamara de Lempicka, Joe Dassin, and Marshall McLuhan. After him are Peter Sellers, Otto Frank, Alexei Kosygin, Gianni Rodari, Milton H. Erickson, and Vladimir Vysotsky.
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 7
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 8
1914 - 1991
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 9
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 11
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 12
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 13
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 15
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 16
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 17
1914 - 2008
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 18
1914 - 2000
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 19
1890 - 1980
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 13
1886 - 1980
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 14
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 15
1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 16
1938 - 1980
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 17
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 18
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 19
1925 - 1980
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 20
1889 - 1980
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 21
1904 - 1980
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 22
1920 - 1980
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 23
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 24
1938 - 1980
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 25
Among people born in Lithuania, Romain Gary ranks 8 out of 287. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), Vytautas (1352), Mindaugas (1203), Gediminas (1275), Emmanuel Levinas (1906), and Czesław Miłosz (1911). After him are Algirdas (1296), Emma Goldman (1869), Hermann Minkowski (1864), César Cui (1835), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), and Kęstutis (1297).
1867 - 1935
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 2
1352 - 1430
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 3
1203 - 1263
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 4
1275 - 1341
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 5
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 6
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 7
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 8
1296 - 1377
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 9
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 10
1864 - 1909
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 11
1835 - 1918
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 12
1878 - 1928
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 13
1297 - 1382
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 14
Among writers born in Lithuania, Romain Gary ranks 2. Before him are Czesław Miłosz (1911). After him are Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Tomas Venclova (1937), Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), and Antanas Baranauskas (1835).
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 1
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 2
1904 - 1936
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 3
1922 - 2019
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 4
1857 - 1928
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 5
1605 - 1659
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 6
1892 - 1938
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 7
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 8
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 9
1840 - 1900
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 10
1845 - 1921
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 11
1835 - 1902
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 12