1903 - 1951
Sadegh Hedayat (Persian: صادق هدایت Persian pronunciation: [ˈsɑːdɛq ɛ hɛdɑːˈjæt] ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sadegh Hedayat has received more than 380,568 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Sadegh Hedayat is the 1,400th most popular writer (up from 1,442nd in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Iran (down from 151st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Iranian Writer.
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Among writers, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 1,400 out of 5,755. Before him are Philippe Soupault, Martin Gardner, Colin Dexter, Matthew Lewis, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Ivan Kotliarevsky. After him are Ida Tarbell, Ausiàs March, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Josef Čapek, Robert Faurisson, and Anna Leonowens.
1897 - 1990
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,394
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,395
1930 - 2017
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 1,396
1775 - 1818
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,397
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,398
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,399
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,400
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,401
1400 - 1459
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,402
1777 - 1843
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 1,403
1887 - 1945
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 1,404
1929 - 2018
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,405
1831 - 1915
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 1,406
Among people born in 1903, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 79. Before him are Werner Ostendorff, Vladimir Bartol, Lou Gehrig, Johannes Heesters, Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Benjamin Spock. After him are Joan Robinson, Evelyn Waugh, Werner Best, Charles W. Morris, Prince Nicholas of Romania, and Walker Evans. Among people deceased in 1951, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 37. Before him are Empress Teimei, Andrei Platonov, Willem Mengelberg, Élie Cartan, Émile Chartier, and Fritz Thyssen. After him are Soh Jaipil, Erich Naumann, Kijūrō Shidehara, Nikolai Medtner, Katarzyna Kobro, and Agrippina Vaganova.
1903 - 1945
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 73
1903 - 1967
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 74
1903 - 1941
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 75
1903 - 2011
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 76
1903 - 1988
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 77
1903 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 78
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 79
1903 - 1983
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 80
1903 - 1966
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 81
1903 - 1989
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 82
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 83
1903 - 1978
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 84
1903 - 1975
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 85
1884 - 1951
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 31
1899 - 1951
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 32
1871 - 1951
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 33
1869 - 1951
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 34
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 35
1873 - 1951
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 36
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 37
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 38
1905 - 1951
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 39
1872 - 1951
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 40
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 41
1898 - 1951
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 42
1879 - 1951
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 43
Among people born in Iran, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 159 out of 528. Before him are Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Orodes II (null), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Ali Daei (1969), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), and Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922). After him are Sufyan al-Thawri (716), Vologases IV (150), Tiridates I of Armenia (null), Arsames (-550), Al-Shahrastani (1086), and Al-Baydawi (1201).
1543 - 1603
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 153
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 154
1919 - 2016
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 155
1969 - Present
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 156
1236 - 1311
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 157
1922 - 2009
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 158
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 159
716 - 778
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 160
150 - 191
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 161
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 162
550 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 163
1086 - 1153
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 164
1201 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 165
Among writers born in Iran, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 17. Before him are Attar of Nishapur (1145), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ali Shariati (1933), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), and Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543). After him are Táhirih (1817), Baba Tahir (947), Daqiqi (1000), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906).
1145 - 1220
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 11
1733 - 1807
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 12
1933 - 1977
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 13
724 - 756
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 14
1935 - 1967
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 15
1543 - 1603
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 16
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 17
1817 - 1852
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 18
947 - 1032
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 19
1000 - 977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1281 - 1349
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 21
1125 - 1201
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 22
1906 - 1988
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 23