1823 - 1849
Sándor Petőfi (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi] []; né Petrovics; Slovak: Alexander Petrovič; Serbian: Александар Петровић; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the Nemzeti dal (National Song), which is said to have inspired the revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary that grew into a war for independence from the Austrian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Petőfi has received more than 385,010 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 60 in 2019). Sándor Petőfi is the 565th most popular writer (up from 566th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Writer.
Sándor Petőfi is most famous for writing the Hungarian national anthem.
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Among writers, Sándor Petőfi ranks 565 out of 5,755. Before him are Faxian, Percy Fawcett, Saint Naum, Jacob L. Moreno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Theocritus. After him are Mo Yan, Lion Feuchtwanger, Dietrich Eckart, Eyvind Johnson, Isaac Babel, and Dino Buzzati.
340 - 418
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 559
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 560
830 - 910
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 561
1889 - 1974
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 562
1922 - 2008
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 563
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 564
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 565
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 566
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 567
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 568
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 569
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 570
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 571
Among people born in 1823, Sándor Petőfi ranks 9. Before him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Max Müller, Ernest Renan, Alexandre Cabanel, Gyula Andrássy, and Leopold Kronecker. After him are Édouard Lalo, Jean-Henri Fabre, Li Hongzhang, John Sherman, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Charles III, Duke of Parma. Among people deceased in 1849, Sándor Petőfi ranks 10. Before him are Hokusai, Johann Strauss I, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, William II of the Netherlands, Anne Brontë, and Charles Albert of Sardinia. After him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Heonjong of Joseon, France Prešeren, Şehzade Abdullah, Juliette Récamier, and Otto Nicolai.
1823 - 1913
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 3
1823 - 1900
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 4
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 5
1823 - 1889
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 6
1823 - 1890
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 7
1823 - 1891
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 8
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 9
1823 - 1892
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 10
1823 - 1915
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 11
1823 - 1901
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 12
1823 - 1900
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 13
1823 - 1883
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 14
1823 - 1854
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 15
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 4
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 5
1769 - 1849
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 6
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 7
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1798 - 1849
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 9
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 10
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 11
1827 - 1849
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 12
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 13
1776 - 1849
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 14
1777 - 1849
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 15
1810 - 1849
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 16
Among people born in Hungary, Sándor Petőfi ranks 57 out of 866. Before him are Emeric Thököly (1657), Flórián Albert (1941), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), Karl Mannheim (1893), George de Hevesy (1885), and Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340). After him are László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Béla Guttmann (1899), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Andrew I of Hungary (1010), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), and Marcel Breuer (1902).
1657 - 1705
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 51
1941 - 2011
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 52
1262 - 1290
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 53
1893 - 1947
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 54
1885 - 1966
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 55
1340 - 1387
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 56
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 57
1895 - 1946
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 58
1899 - 1981
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 59
1893 - 1986
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 60
1010 - 1060
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 61
1174 - 1204
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 62
1902 - 1981
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 63
Among writers born in Hungary, Sándor Petőfi ranks 4. Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860), Imre Kertész (1929), and Ágota Kristóf (1935). After him are Ferenc Molnár (1878), Arthur Koestler (1905), Felix Salten (1869), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), Magda Szabó (1917), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), and Béla Balázs (1884).
1860 - 1904
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 1
1929 - 2016
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 2
1935 - 2011
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 3
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 4
1878 - 1952
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 5
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 6
1869 - 1945
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 7
1924 - 2005
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 8
1849 - 1923
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 9
1917 - 2007
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 10
1802 - 1850
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 11
1884 - 1949
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 12