1909 - 1943
Simone Adolphine Weil ( VAY, French: [simɔn adɔlfin vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Since 1995, more than 2,500 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work.After her graduation from formal education, Weil became a teacher. She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s, taking several breaks because of poor health and in order to devote herself to political activism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simone Weil has received more than 2,055,474 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Simone Weil is the 142nd most popular philosopher (up from 148th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from France (up from 301st in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Philosopher.
Simone Weil is most famous for her essay "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" which discusses the power of violence.
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Among philosophers, Simone Weil ranks 142 out of 1,081. Before her are John Rawls, Isocrates, Zhu Xi, Edith Stein, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Clement of Alexandria. After her are György Lukács, Martin Buber, Hans Kelsen, Duns Scotus, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and Kabir.
1921 - 2002
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 136
436 BC - 338 BC
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 137
1130 - 1200
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 138
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 139
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 140
150 - 215
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 141
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 142
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 143
1878 - 1965
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 144
1881 - 1973
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 145
1265 - 1308
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 146
1714 - 1762
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 147
1440 - 1518
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 148
Among people born in 1909, Simone Weil ranks 6. Before her are Stepan Bandera, Eugène Ionesco, Osamu Dazai, Juliana of the Netherlands, and Peter Drucker. After her are Andrei Gromyko, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Francis Bacon, Victor Borge, Nicholas Winton, and U Thant. Among people deceased in 1943, Simone Weil ranks 8. Before her are Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Hilbert, Karl Landsteiner, Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, and Camille Claudel. After her are Boris III of Bulgaria, Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Sophie Scholl, and Henri La Fontaine.
1909 - 1959
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 1
1909 - 1994
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 2
1909 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 3
1909 - 2004
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 4
1909 - 2005
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 5
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 6
1909 - 1989
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 7
1909 - 1978
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 8
1909 - 1992
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 9
1909 - 2000
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 10
1909 - 2015
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 11
1909 - 1974
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 12
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 2
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 3
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 5
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 6
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 11
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 12
1921 - 1943
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 13
1854 - 1943
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Simone Weil ranks 278 out of 6,011. Before her are Camille Claudel (1864), John the Fearless (1371), Jean Gabin (1904), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Henry I of France (1008). After her are Germaine de Staël (1766), Pope Urban IV (1185), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Anne of Brittany (1477), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), and Claude Lorrain (1600).
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 272
1371 - 1419
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 273
1904 - 1976
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 274
1640 - 1707
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 275
1845 - 1924
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 276
1008 - 1060
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 277
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 278
1766 - 1817
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 279
1185 - 1264
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 280
1767 - 1794
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 281
1477 - 1514
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 282
1755 - 1842
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 283
1600 - 1682
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 284
Among philosophers born in France, Simone Weil ranks 14. Before her are Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles Fourier (1772), and Gilles Deleuze (1925). After her are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Pierre Gassendi (1592).
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 10
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 12
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 13
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 15
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 16
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 17
1295 - 1361
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 18
1709 - 1751
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 19
1592 - 1655
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 20