1940 - Today
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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Among writers, Régis Debray ranks 1,251 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1185 - 1260
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 1,245
1899 - 1965
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 1,246
1426 - 1487
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 1,247
1929 - 1978
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 1,248
1893 - 1945
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 1,249
1887 - 1968
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,250
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,251
1918 - 2014
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,252
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,253
1908 - 1942
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,254
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,255
1884 - 1967
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,256
878 - 942
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,257
Among people born in 1940, Régis Debray ranks 95. Before 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.
1940 - 2017
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 89
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 90
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 91
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 92
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 93
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 94
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 95
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 96
1940 - 1996
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 97
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 98
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 99
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 100
1940 - 2022
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 101
Among people born in France, Régis Debray ranks 1,455 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1520 - 1537
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,449
1898 - 1970
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,450
1927 - 1992
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,451
1178 - 1233
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 1,452
1560 - 1641
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 1,453
1893 - 1945
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 1,454
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,455
1753 - 1824
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 1,456
1897 - 1946
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 1,457
1929 - 2007
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,458
1754 - 1840
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,459
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,460
878 - 942
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,461
Among writers born in France, Régis Debray ranks 183. Before 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).
1852 - 1935
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 177
1913 - 1978
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 178
1688 - 1763
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 179
1747 - 1825
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 180
1831 - 1908
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 181
1893 - 1945
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 182
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 183
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 184
878 - 942
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 185
1873 - 1914
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 186
1926 - 2016
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 187
1832 - 1873
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 188
1938 - 1997
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 189