1629 - 1680
Symeon (Simeon) of Polotsk or Symeon Polotsky (Russian: Симео́н По́лоцкий; born as Samuel Piotrowski-Sitnianowicz, Russian: Самуи́л Петро́вский-Ситнянович; December 12, 1629 – August 25, 1680) was an academically-trained Baroque poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener of Belarusian descent who came from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Tsardom of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Symeon of Polotsk has received more than 29,149 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Symeon of Polotsk is the 2,857th most popular writer (up from 3,009th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Belarus (down from 90th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Belarusian Writer.
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Among writers, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 2,857 out of 5,755. Before him are Jean Rhys, Daniel Varoujan, Johan Borgen, Andrei Amalrik, Ubayd Zakani, and Raffi. After him are Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Al-Asmaʿi, Claude Farrère, Sven Lindqvist, John Banville, and Antonio de Guevara.
1890 - 1979
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 2,851
1884 - 1915
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 2,852
1902 - 1979
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 2,853
1938 - 1980
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 2,854
1301 - 1371
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,855
1835 - 1888
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,856
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,857
1963 - Present
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,858
740 - 828
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,859
1876 - 1957
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 2,860
1932 - 2019
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,861
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,862
1480 - 1544
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,863
Among people born in 1629, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 17. Before him are Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Cornelis Tromp, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, and Jean-Henri d'Anglebert. After him are Laurent Cassegrain and Agnes Block. Among people deceased in 1680, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 31. Before him are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Peter Lely, Frans Post, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Marco Uccellini. After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Yun Hyu, and Wang Shimin.
1629 - 1689
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 11
1629 - 1665
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 12
1629 - 1663
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 13
1629 - 1691
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 14
1629 - 1685
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 15
1629 - 1691
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 16
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 17
1629 - 1693
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 18
1629 - 1704
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 19
1647 - 1680
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 25
1614 - 1680
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 26
1618 - 1680
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 27
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 28
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 29
1603 - 1680
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 30
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 31
1609 - 1680
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 32
1630 - 1680
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 33
1617 - 1680
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 34
1592 - 1680
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 35
Among people born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 91 out of 330. Before him are January Suchodolski (1797), Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Sergei Aleinikov (1961), Anatoly Chubais (1955), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), and Oscar Zariski (1899). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), and Ivonka Survilla (1936).
1797 - 1875
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 85
1982 - Present
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 86
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 87
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 88
1886 - 1944
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 89
1899 - 1986
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 90
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 91
1927 - 1994
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 92
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 93
1795 - 1855
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 94
1961 - 1986
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 95
1914 - 1978
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 96
1936 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 97
Among writers born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 14. Before him are S. Ansky (1863), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), and Itzhak Katzenelson (1886). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), and Alaiza Pashkevich (1876).
1863 - 1920
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 8
1891 - 1917
HPI: 53.83
Rank: 9
1804 - 1891
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 10
1895 - 1979
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 11
1930 - 1984
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 12
1886 - 1944
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 13
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 14
1927 - 1994
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 15
1914 - 1978
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 16
1758 - 1841
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 17
1906 - 2000
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 18
1898 - 1939
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 19
1876 - 1916
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 20