1924 - 2003
Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (also spelled Vasil Bykov, Belarusian: Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, Russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков; 19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a Belarusian Soviet dissident, junior lieutenant, opposition politician, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasil Bykaŭ has received more than 79,256 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Vasil Bykaŭ is the 1,454th most popular writer (up from 2,087th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 61st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Writer.
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Among writers, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 1,454 out of 5,755. Before him are Rick Riordan, César Vallejo, Jules Laforgue, Salvian, Fulcher of Chartres, and J. G. Ballard. After him are Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Alexander Radishchev, Philip José Farmer, Ruy González de Clavijo, and José Mauro de Vasconcelos.
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,448
1892 - 1938
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,449
1860 - 1887
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 1,450
405 - 451
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,451
1059 - 1127
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,452
1930 - 2009
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,453
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,454
718 - 790
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,455
400 - 400
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,456
1749 - 1802
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,457
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,458
1400 - 1412
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,459
1920 - 1984
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,460
Among people born in 1924, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 87. Before him are Jozef Tomko, Arthur Danto, Paul Desmond, Kenneth Kaunda, James Black, and Israel Tal. After him are Milka Planinc, Moktar Ould Daddah, Antoni Ramallets, David Bronstein, Noboru Takeshita, and Torsten Wiesel. Among people deceased in 2003, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 60. Before him are Monique Wittig, Lee Yoo-hyung, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Walt Whitman Rostow, Anna Lindh, and John Schlesinger. After him are Georg Henrik von Wright, Ilan Ramon, Michael P. Anderson, Moktar Ould Daddah, Alan Bates, and Donald O'Connor.
1924 - 2022
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 81
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 82
1924 - 1977
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 83
1924 - 2021
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 84
1924 - 2010
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 85
1924 - 2010
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 86
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 87
1924 - 2010
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 88
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 89
1924 - 2013
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 90
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 91
1924 - 2000
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 92
1924 - Present
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 93
1935 - 2003
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 54
1911 - 2003
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 55
1911 - 2003
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 56
1916 - 2003
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 57
1957 - 2003
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 58
1926 - 2003
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 59
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 60
1916 - 2003
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 61
1954 - 2003
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 62
1959 - 2003
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 63
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 64
1934 - 2003
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 65
1925 - 2003
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 66
Among people born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 47 out of 330. Before him are Sophia of Minsk (1140), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Marek Edelman (1922), Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), and Otto Schmidt (1891). After him are Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Alexander Orlov (1895), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), and Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835).
1140 - 1198
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 41
1912 - 1976
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 42
1896 - 1962
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 43
1922 - 2009
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 44
1110 - 1173
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 45
1891 - 1956
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 46
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 47
1914 - 1987
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 48
1802 - 1889
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 49
1895 - 1973
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 50
1515 - 1565
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 51
1745 - 1812
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 52
1835 - 1917
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 53
Among writers born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 4. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Yanka Kupala (1882), and Yakub Kolas (1882). After him are Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), Oscar Milosz (1877), S. Ansky (1863), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), and Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930).
1932 - 2007
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 1
1882 - 1942
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 2
1882 - 1956
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 3
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 4
1835 - 1917
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 5
1841 - 1910
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 6
1877 - 1939
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 7
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