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Régis Debray

1940 - Today

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Jules Régis Debray (French: [dəbʁɛ]; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Régis Debray has received more than 368,567 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Régis Debray is the 1,443rd most popular writer (down from 1,248th in 2019), the 1,673rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,450th in 2019) and the 206th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Régis Debray ranks 1,443 out of 7,302. Before him are Wilhelm Müller, Seamus Heaney, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Qiu Chuji, Hieronymus of Cardia, and Virginia Henderson. After him are Li Qingzhao, Enzo of Sardinia, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Thomas of Celano, Henry Steel Olcott, and Arnold van Gennep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Régis Debray ranks 113. Before him are Vladimir Cosma, Alan Kay, Sadaharu Oh, Saul Kripke, Vicente Fernández, and Masahiro Hamazaki. After him are Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Just Jaeckin, Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, Max Mosley, Lei Feng, and Jerzy Buzek.

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In France

Among people born in France, Régis Debray ranks 1,673 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of France, Queen of England (1282), Sacha Distel (1933), Charles-François Lebrun (1739), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), and Louis-Michel van Loo (1707). After him are Auguste Charlois (1864), Christian de Castries (1902), Recceswinth (620), Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (1692), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), and Henri Michel (1947).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Régis Debray ranks 206. Before him are Philippe Soupault (1897), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Remy de Gourmont (1858), Marcel Aymé (1902), and Georges Feydeau (1862). After him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Tristan Corbière (1845), Jacques Cazotte (1719), Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), and Francis Jammes (1868).

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