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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 333,525 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Régis Debray is the 1,251st most popular writer (up from 1,355th in 2019), the 1,455th most popular biography from France (up from 1,486th in 2019) and the 183rd most popular French Writer.

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  • 2.85

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Régis Debray ranks 1,251 out of 5,755Before him are Thomas of Celano, Aksel Sandemose, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, Georgi Markov, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Arnold Zweig. After him are B. K. S. Iyengar, Blaise Cendrars, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Antoine de Montchrestien, Hugo Gernsback, and Odo of Cluny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Régis Debray ranks 95Before him are Roger Ailes, Nobuyoshi Araki, Arieh Warshel, Clive Sinclair, Max Mosley, and Joseph L. Goldstein. After him are Vladimir Cosma, Frida Boccara, Vittorio Storaro, Gojko Mitić, Alan Kay, and Edward C. Prescott.

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In France

Among people born in France, Régis Debray ranks 1,455 out of 6,011Before him are Madeleine of Valois (1520), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898), Jean-Claude Pascal (1927), Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178), Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560), and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893). After him are Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753), Marcel Petiot (1897), Bob Denard (1929), Louis de Bonald (1754), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), and Odo of Cluny (878).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Régis Debray ranks 183Before him are Paul Bourget (1852), Roger Caillois (1913), Pierre de Marivaux (1688), Vivant Denon (1747), Victorien Sardou (1831), and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893). After him are Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), Odo of Cluny (878), Charles Péguy (1873), Michel Butor (1926), Émile Gaboriau (1832), and Roland Topor (1938).