1937 - Today
Tomas Venclova (born 11 September 1937) is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomas Venclova has received more than 64,130 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tomas Venclova is the 2,720th most popular writer (up from 3,006th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 74th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Lithuanian Writer.
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Among writers, Tomas Venclova ranks 2,720 out of 5,755. Before him are Abolqasem Lahouti, Anatoly Rybakov, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Mary Mapes Dodge, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, and Max Beerbohm. After him are Brian Herbert, Matthias Claudius, Ibn Manzur, Itzhak Katzenelson, Angela Carter, and Venedikt Yerofeyev.
1887 - 1957
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 2,714
1911 - 1998
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 2,715
1739 - 1791
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 2,716
1831 - 1905
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 2,717
1819 - 1909
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 2,718
1872 - 1956
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 2,719
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 2,720
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 2,721
1740 - 1815
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 2,722
1233 - 1312
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 2,723
1886 - 1944
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 2,724
1940 - 1992
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 2,725
1938 - 1990
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 2,726
Among people born in 1937, Tomas Venclova ranks 189. Before him are André Glucksmann, Chris Bristow, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gordon Milne, Nur Hassan Hussein, and Keiko Abe. After him are Mikheil Meskhi, Armin Hary, Lorraine Gary, Antonio Rattín, Erich Ribbeck, and Barbara Steele.
1937 - 2015
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 183
1937 - 1960
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 184
1937 - 2008
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 185
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 186
1937 - 2020
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 187
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 188
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 189
1937 - 1991
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 190
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 191
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 192
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 193
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 194
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 195
Among people born in Lithuania, Tomas Venclova ranks 78 out of 287. Before him are Justas Paleckis (1899), Vincas Kudirka (1858), Kazimira Prunskienė (1943), Bruno Abakanowicz (1852), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), and Yitzhak Arad (1926). After him are Rolandas Paksas (1956), Al Jolson (1886), Joseph Klausner (1874), Yehuda Pen (1854), Antanas Sniečkus (1903), and Klara Zamenhof (1863).
1899 - 1980
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 72
1858 - 1899
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 73
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 74
1852 - 1900
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 75
1865 - 1920
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 76
1926 - 2021
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 77
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 78
1956 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 79
1886 - 1950
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 80
1874 - 1958
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 81
1854 - 1937
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 82
1903 - 1974
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 83
1863 - 1924
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 84
Among writers born in Lithuania, Tomas Venclova ranks 8. Before him are Romain Gary (1914), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), and Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892). After him are Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), and Osip Senkovsky (1800).
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 2
1904 - 1936
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 3
1922 - 2019
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 4
1857 - 1928
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 5
1605 - 1659
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 6
1892 - 1938
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 7
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 8
1868 - 1953
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 9
1840 - 1900
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 10
1845 - 1921
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 11
1835 - 1902
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 12
1930 - 2011
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 13
1800 - 1858
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 14