1802 - 1885
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Hugo has received more than 8,622,384 page views. His biography is available in 170 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 164 in 2019). Victor Hugo is the 13th most popular writer (down from 11th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from France (up from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Writer.
Victor Hugo is most famous for his novel Les Miserables, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time.
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Among writers, Victor Hugo ranks 13 out of 5,755. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka. After him are Virgil, Aesop, Jules Verne, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ovid.
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 13
70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 14
620 BC - 564 BC
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 15
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 16
1547 - 1616
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 17
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 18
43 BC - 17
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1802, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Alexandre Dumas, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Niels Henrik Abel, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Elias Lönnrot, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Antoine Jérôme Balard. Among people deceased in 1885, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Ulysses S. Grant, Alfonso XII of Spain, Muhammad Ahmad, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Carl Spitzweg, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Charles George Gordon, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Rosalía de Castro.
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 1
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 2
1802 - 1878
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 3
1802 - 1829
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 4
1802 - 1894
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 5
1802 - 1860
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 6
1802 - 1866
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 7
1802 - 1884
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 8
1802 - 1827
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 9
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 10
1802 - 1870
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 11
1802 - 1876
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 12
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 1
1822 - 1885
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 2
1857 - 1885
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 3
1844 - 1885
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 4
1847 - 1885
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 5
1816 - 1885
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 6
1806 - 1885
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 7
1808 - 1885
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 8
1865 - 1885
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 9
1833 - 1885
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 10
1811 - 1885
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 11
1837 - 1885
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Victor Hugo ranks 8 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis XIV of France (1638), René Descartes (1596), Joan of Arc (1412), Blaise Pascal (1623), Louis Pasteur (1822), and Voltaire (1694). After him are Claude Monet (1840), Montesquieu (1689), Louis XVI of France (1754), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Nostradamus (1503).
1638 - 1715
HPI: 91.31
Rank: 2
1596 - 1650
HPI: 90.95
Rank: 3
1412 - 1431
HPI: 89.59
Rank: 4
1623 - 1662
HPI: 88.71
Rank: 5
1822 - 1895
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 6
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 7
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 8
1840 - 1926
HPI: 85.77
Rank: 9
1689 - 1755
HPI: 85.71
Rank: 10
1754 - 1793
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 11
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 12
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 13
1503 - 1566
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 14
Among writers born in France, Victor Hugo ranks 2. Before him are Voltaire (1694). After him are Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Molière (1622), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 1
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 2
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 3
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 4
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 5
1900 - 1944
HPI: 83.63
Rank: 6
1799 - 1850
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 7
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 8
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 9
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 10
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 11
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 12