WRITER

Uri Avnery

1923 - 2018

Photo of Uri Avnery

Icon of person Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי‎, also transliterated Uri Avneri; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was an Israeli writer, politician, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat for two terms in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uri Avnery has received more than 185,172 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Uri Avnery is the 1,689th most popular writer (down from 1,576th in 2019), the 1,700th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,457th in 2019) and the 112th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Uri Avneries by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Uri Avnery ranks 1,689 out of 5,794. Before him are Hellanicus of Lesbos, Gerald Gardner, Ivan Klíma, Nora Roberts, Maria Gripe, and Akiyuki Nosaka. After him are Hanns Heinz Ewers, Felice Romani, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Alexander Fadeyev, and Petar Zrinski.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Uri Avnery ranks 98. Before him are Chuck Yeager, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Ernst Nolte, Belisario Betancur, Alicia de Larrocha, and Maria Gripe. After him are Philly Joe Jones, Yves Bonnefoy, Bettie Page, Otfried Preußler, Bert Kaempfert, and Walerian Borowczyk. Among people deceased in 2018, Uri Avnery ranks 90. Before him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Bruno Sammartino, Aharon Appelfeld, Robert Faurisson, James Mirrlees, and Belisario Betancur. After him are Robert Morris, Alan Baker, Michael Anderson, Joseph Kobzon, Quini, and Ermanno Olmi.

Others Born in 1923

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2018

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 1,700 out of 5,289. Before him are Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Conrad Veidt (1893), Carl Ludwig (1816), William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876), and Karl von Piloty (1826). After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Georg Lindemann (1884), Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (1204), and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 112. Before him are Kathrine Switzer (1947), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Eduard Mörike (1804), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), and Georg Kaiser (1878). After him are Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), and Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901).

German born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • Datawheel