1933 - Today
Roman Polanski (Polish: Polański , pə-LAN-skee, [ˈrɔman pɔˈlaj̃skʲi] (Listen); born Raymond Thierry Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. Polanski is also a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country in 1977 while awaiting sentencing for unlawful intercourse with a minor.His Polish-Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937. Two years later, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Polanski has received more than 18,387,966 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Roman Polanski is the 7th most popular film director (up from 10th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from France (up from 134th in 2019) and the most popular French Film Director.
Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is most famous for directing the films Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, and The Pianist.
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Among film directors, Roman Polanski ranks 7 out of 1,580. Before him are Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Hayao Miyazaki, and Akira Kurosawa. After him are Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergio Leone, and Francis Ford Coppola.
1946 - Present
HPI: 87.57
Rank: 1
1899 - 1980
HPI: 86.80
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 86.49
Rank: 3
1928 - 1999
HPI: 84.93
Rank: 4
1941 - Present
HPI: 84.84
Rank: 5
1910 - 1998
HPI: 84.43
Rank: 6
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 7
1918 - 2007
HPI: 83.84
Rank: 8
1920 - 1993
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 9
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
Among people born in 1933, Roman Polanski ranks 1. After him are Akihito, Garrincha, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Yoko Ono, Michael Caine, Montserrat Caballé, James Brown, Dalida, Nina Simone, and Claudio Abbado.
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 1
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 2
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 3
1933 - 2019
HPI: 82.64
Rank: 4
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 5
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 6
1933 - Present
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 7
1933 - 2018
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 8
1933 - 2006
HPI: 79.61
Rank: 9
1933 - 1987
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 10
1933 - 2003
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 11
1933 - 2014
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Roman Polanski ranks 73 out of 5,234. Before him are Tacitus (54), Henri Bergson (1859), Charles Perrault (1628), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Louis the Pious (778), and Francis I of France (1494). After him are Caracalla (188), Romain Rolland (1866), Henry III of France (1551), Marquis de Sade (1740), Pope Urban II (1042), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).
54 - 120
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 67
1859 - 1941
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 68
1628 - 1703
HPI: 83.93
Rank: 69
1748 - 1825
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 70
778 - 840
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 71
1494 - 1547
HPI: 83.87
Rank: 72
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 73
188 - 217
HPI: 83.81
Rank: 74
1866 - 1944
HPI: 83.80
Rank: 75
1551 - 1589
HPI: 83.78
Rank: 76
1740 - 1814
HPI: 83.78
Rank: 77
1042 - 1099
HPI: 83.67
Rank: 78
1850 - 1893
HPI: 83.67
Rank: 79
Among film directors born in France, Roman Polanski ranks 1. After him are Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Georges Méliès (1861), François Truffaut (1932), Jacques Tati (1907), Éric Rohmer (1920), Roger Vadim (1928), William Wyler (1902), Claude Chabrol (1930), Alain Resnais (1922), Luc Besson (1959), and Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943).
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 1
1930 - Present
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 2
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 3
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 4
1907 - 1982
HPI: 75.93
Rank: 5
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 6
1928 - 2000
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 7
1902 - 1981
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 8
1930 - 2010
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 9
1922 - 2014
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 10
1959 - Present
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 12