1949 - Today
Slavoj Žižek ( SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek, Slovene: [ˈslaʋɔj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Slavoj Žižek has received more than 6,578,125 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Slavoj Žižek is the 216th most popular philosopher (up from 226th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Slovenia and the most popular Slovene Philosopher.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is most famous for his work on ideology and psychoanalysis.
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Among philosophers, Slavoj Žižek ranks 216 out of 1,081. Before him are Proclus, Diotima of Mantinea, Ibn Tufail, Joseph de Maistre, Chilon of Sparta, and Bias of Priene. After him are Benedetto Croce, Miguel de Unamuno, Isaiah Berlin, Baltasar Gracián, Paul Feyerabend, and Giorgio Agamben.
412 - 485
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 210
450 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 211
1110 - 1185
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 212
1753 - 1821
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 213
600 BC - 520 BC
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 214
600 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 215
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 216
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 217
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 218
1909 - 1997
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 219
1601 - 1658
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 220
1924 - 1994
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 221
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 222
Among people born in 1949, Slavoj Žižek ranks 25. Before him are Ken Follett, Sandra Mason, Jeff Bridges, Caitlyn Jenner, André Rieu, and Jessica Lange. After him are Sebastián Piñera, Thomas Sankara, Bobby Farrell, Carlos the Jackal, Patrick Süskind, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 19
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 20
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 21
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 22
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 23
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 24
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 25
1949 - 2024
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 26
1949 - 1987
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 27
1949 - 2010
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 28
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 29
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 30
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 31
Among people born in Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek ranks 3 out of 295. Before him are Giuseppe Tartini (1692) and Barbara of Cilli (1392). After him are France Prešeren (1800), Hugo Wolf (1860), Jože Plečnik (1872), Milan Kučan (1941), Arkan (1952), Santorio Santorio (1561), Janez Janša (1958), Hemma of Gurk (980), and Borut Pahor (1963).
1692 - 1770
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 1
1392 - 1451
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 3
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 4
1860 - 1903
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 5
1872 - 1957
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 6
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 7
1952 - 2000
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 8
1561 - 1636
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 10
980 - 1045
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 11
1963 - Present
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 12
Among philosophers born in Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek ranks 1. After him are Jakob Lorber (1800).