1904 - 1966
Vilis Lācis (12 May 1904 – 6 February 1966) was a Latvian writer and communist politician.Lācis was born Jānis Vilhelms Lāce into a working-class family in Vecmīlgrāvis (now part of Riga). During World War I, his family fled to the Altai region in Siberia, where Lācis studied at the pedagogical seminary in Barnaul. In 1921, Lācis returned to Riga and at various times worked as a fisherman, port worker, ship's fireman and librarian while writing in his free time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilis Lācis has received more than 39,208 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Vilis Lācis is the 2,204th most popular writer (up from 2,617th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Writer.
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Among writers, Vilis Lācis ranks 2,204 out of 5,755. Before him are Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Molla Panah Vagif, Giraut de Bornelh, Jens Fink-Jensen, Ivan Yefremov, and Ben Hecht. After him are Adam Zagajewski, Judith Kerr, Victorinus of Pettau, Wilhelm Worringer, Heinz G. Konsalik, and Juan del Encina.
1579 - 1666
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 2,198
1717 - 1797
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 2,199
1138 - 1220
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 2,200
1956 - Present
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 2,201
1908 - 1972
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 2,202
1893 - 1964
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 2,203
1904 - 1966
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 2,204
1945 - 2021
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 2,205
1923 - 2019
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 2,206
250 - 303
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 2,207
1881 - 1965
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 2,208
1921 - 1999
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 2,209
1468 - 1529
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 2,210
Among people born in 1904, Vilis Lācis ranks 112. Before him are Delmer Daves, Joseph Valachi, Ding Ling, Leo Joseph Suenens, Anna Mahler, and Giuseppe Terragni. After him are Franz Kutschera, Christian-Jaque, Wang Ming, Achille Varzi, Lidia Zamenhof, and Tevfik Esenç. Among people deceased in 1966, Vilis Lācis ranks 78. Before him are Elena Stasova, Emil Brunner, Vladimir Minorsky, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, and George Ohsawa. After him are Robert Rossen, Hermann Scherchen, Wieland Wagner, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Venceslau Brás, and Väinö Tanner.
1904 - 1977
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 106
1904 - 1971
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 107
1904 - 1986
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 108
1904 - 1996
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 109
1904 - 1988
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 110
1904 - 1943
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 111
1904 - 1966
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 112
1904 - 1944
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 113
1904 - 1994
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 114
1904 - 1974
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 115
1904 - 1948
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 116
1904 - 1942
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 117
1904 - 1992
HPI: 53.89
Rank: 118
1873 - 1966
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 72
1889 - 1966
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 73
1877 - 1966
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 74
1882 - 1966
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 75
1899 - 1966
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 76
1893 - 1966
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 77
1904 - 1966
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 78
1908 - 1966
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 79
1891 - 1966
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 80
1917 - 1966
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 81
1886 - 1966
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 82
1868 - 1966
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 83
1881 - 1966
HPI: 53.88
Rank: 84
Among people born in Latvia, Vilis Lācis ranks 46 out of 284. Before him are Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Valdis Zatlers (1955), Oswald Külpe (1862), Friedrich Zander (1887), Ferdinand Kettler (1655), and Max Weinreich (1894). After him are Yevgeny Miller (1867), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Maria Amalia of Courland (1653), Paul Walden (1863), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), and Jānis Pujats (1930).
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 40
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 41
1862 - 1915
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 42
1887 - 1933
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 43
1655 - 1737
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 44
1894 - 1969
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 45
1904 - 1966
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 46
1867 - 1939
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 47
1889 - 1938
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 48
1653 - 1711
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 49
1863 - 1957
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 50
1876 - 1945
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 51
1930 - Present
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 52
Among writers born in Latvia, Vilis Lācis ranks 4. Before him are Aron Nimzowitsch (1886), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), and Rainis (1865). After him are Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Aspazija (1865), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Vizma Belševica (1931), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), and Krišjānis Barons (1835).
1886 - 1935
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 1
1751 - 1792
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 2
1865 - 1929
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1966
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 4
1876 - 1945
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 5
1891 - 1945
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 6
1764 - Present
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 7
1865 - 1943
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 9
1931 - 2005
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 10
1801 - 1822
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 11
1835 - 1923
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 12