1923 - 2012
Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetozar Gligorić has received more than 134,333 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Svetozar Gligorić is the 43rd most popular chess player (up from 44th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 91st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Chess Player.
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Among chess players, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 43 out of 374. Before him are Efim Bogoljubov, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, László Szabó, Lyudmila Rudenko, Andor Lilienthal, and Legall de Kermeur. After him are Frank Marshall, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, and Salo Flohr.
1889 - 1952
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 37
1542 - 1597
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 38
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 39
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 40
1911 - 2010
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 41
1702 - 1792
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 42
1923 - 2012
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 43
1877 - 1944
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 44
1796 - 1840
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 45
1810 - 1874
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 46
1480 - 1544
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 47
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 48
1908 - 1983
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 49
Among people born in 1923, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 105. Before him are Wolfgang Sawallisch, Robert Maxwell, Belisario Betancur, Uziel Gal, Ernst Nolte, and Conrad Bain. After him are Wes Montgomery, Alicia de Larrocha, Uri Avnery, Richard Pipes, Dexter Gordon, and Irvin Kershner. Among people deceased in 2012, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 93. Before him are Omar Suleiman, Warda Al-Jazairia, Sergio Pininfarina, Tonino Guerra, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, and Carlo Maria Martini. After him are Vidal Sassoon, Maurice André, Daniel Inouye, Nora Ephron, Alfred Schmidt, and Manuel Fraga.
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 99
1923 - 1991
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 100
1923 - 2018
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 101
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 102
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 103
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 104
1923 - 2012
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 105
1923 - 1968
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 106
1923 - 2009
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 107
1923 - 2018
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 108
1923 - 2018
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 109
1923 - 1990
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 110
1923 - 2010
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 111
1936 - 2012
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 87
1939 - 2012
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 88
1926 - 2012
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 89
1920 - 2012
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 90
1934 - 2012
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 91
1927 - 2012
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 92
1923 - 2012
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 93
1928 - 2012
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 94
1933 - 2012
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 95
1924 - 2012
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 96
1941 - 2012
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 97
1931 - 2012
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 98
1922 - 2012
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 99
Among people born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 98 out of 564. Before him are Rajko Mitić (1922), Šaban Šaulić (1951), Nadežda Petrović (1873), Jovan Cvijić (1865), Velibor Vasović (1939), and Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria (1300). After him are Koča Popović (1908), Đorđe Balašević (1953), Stepa Stepanović (1856), Svetozar Marković (1846), Mutimir of Serbia (830), and Desanka Maksimović (1898).
1922 - 2008
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 92
1951 - 2019
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 93
1873 - 1915
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 94
1865 - 1927
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 95
1939 - 2002
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 96
1300 - 1373
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 97
1923 - 2012
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 98
1908 - 1992
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 99
1953 - 2021
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 100
1856 - 1929
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 101
1846 - 1875
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 102
830 - 891
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 103
1898 - 1993
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 104
Among chess players born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 2. Before him are Borislav Ivkov (1933). After him are Boris Kostić (1887), Boško Abramović (1951), Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), Andrija Fuderer (1931), and Peter Leko (1979).
1933 - 2022
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 1
1923 - 2012
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 2
1887 - 1963
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 3
1951 - 2021
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 4
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 5
1930 - 2023
HPI: 46.37
Rank: 6
1931 - 2011
HPI: 40.83
Rank: 7
1979 - Present
HPI: 37.81
Rank: 8