1884 - 1969
Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of nine months during 1948, he governed as the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rómulo Gallegos has received more than 207,143 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Rómulo Gallegos is the 2,259th most popular writer (down from 1,852nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Writer.
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Among writers, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 2,259 out of 5,755. Before him are Rahel Varnhagen, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Andrei Voznesensky, Gaston Paris, and Vsevolod Garshin. After him are John Kennedy Toole, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Phan Bội Châu, Jean Raspail, Elisabeth of Schönau, and Paschasius Radbertus.
1771 - 1833
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 2,253
1647 - 1680
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 2,254
1682 - 1749
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 2,255
1933 - 2010
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 2,256
1839 - 1903
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 2,257
1855 - 1888
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 2,258
1884 - 1969
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 2,259
1937 - 1969
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 2,260
1825 - 1898
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,261
1867 - 1940
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,262
1925 - 2020
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,263
1129 - 1164
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 2,264
792 - 865
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 2,265
Among people born in 1884, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 76. Before him are Antoine Pevsner, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Mikhail Borodin, Gerald Gardner, Jean Paulhan, and George Sarton. After him are Corrado Gini, Ferdinand von Bredow, Werner Krauss, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Philipp Frank, and Tanzan Ishibashi. Among people deceased in 1969, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 81. Before him are Adolfo López Mateos, Coleman Hawkins, Carlos Marighella, Peter van Eyck, Max Weinreich, and Josef Blösche. After him are John Kennedy Toole, Constantin Ion Parhon, Eduardo Mondlane, Ivar Ballangrud, Willy Mairesse, and Aleksandras Stulginskis.
1884 - 1962
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 70
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 71
1884 - 1951
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 72
1884 - 1964
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 73
1884 - 1968
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 74
1884 - 1956
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 75
1884 - 1969
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 76
1884 - 1965
HPI: 54.07
Rank: 77
1884 - 1934
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 78
1884 - 1959
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 79
1884 - 1923
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 80
1884 - 1966
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 81
1884 - 1973
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 82
1909 - 1969
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 75
1904 - 1969
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 76
1911 - 1969
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 77
1911 - 1969
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 78
1894 - 1969
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 79
1912 - 1969
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 80
1884 - 1969
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 81
1937 - 1969
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 82
1874 - 1969
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 83
1920 - 1969
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 84
1904 - 1969
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 85
1928 - 1969
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 86
1885 - 1969
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 87
Among people born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 20 out of 155. Before him are Andrés Bello (1781), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), Juan Vicente Gómez (1857), Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (1942), José Antonio Abreu (1939), and Juan José Flores (1800). After him are Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Teresa Carreño (1853), Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), Johnny Cecotto (1956), Simón Rodríguez (1769), and Jesús Rafael Soto (1923).
1781 - 1865
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 14
1914 - 2001
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 15
1857 - 1935
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 16
1942 - 2021
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 17
1939 - 2018
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 18
1800 - 1864
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 19
1884 - 1969
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 20
1916 - 2014
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 21
1853 - 1917
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 22
1879 - 1937
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 23
1956 - Present
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 24
1769 - 1854
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 25
1923 - 2005
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 26
Among writers born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 1. After him are Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906), Miguel Otero Silva (1908), Eugenio Montejo (1938), and Boris Izaguirre (1965).
1884 - 1969
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 1
1879 - 1937
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 2
1906 - 2001
HPI: 48.49
Rank: 3
1908 - 1985
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 4
1938 - 2008
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 5
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.54
Rank: 6