1874 - 1940
Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold (Russian: Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд, romanized: Vsévolod Èmíl'evič Mejerchól'd; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold; 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer of German descent. His provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern international theatre. During the Great Purge, Meyerhold was arrested in June 1939. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vsevolod Meyerhold has received more than 462,758 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Vsevolod Meyerhold is the 137th most popular film director (up from 2,700th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 267th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Film Director.
Vsevolod Meyerhold was a Russian theater director and theorist who was most famous for his biomechanics, which is a system of physical training that he developed for actors.
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Among film directors, Vsevolod Meyerhold ranks 137 out of 1,581. Before him are Moustapha Akkad, René Clément, Claude Lelouch, D. W. Griffith, István Szabó, and Andrei Konchalovsky. After him are Kim Ki-duk, Josef von Sternberg, Joel Schumacher, Lasse Hallström, Blake Edwards, and Jacques Demy.
1930 - 2005
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 131
1913 - 1996
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 132
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 133
1875 - 1948
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 134
1938 - Present
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 135
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 136
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 137
1960 - 2020
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 138
1894 - 1969
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 139
1939 - 2020
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 140
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 141
1922 - 2010
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 142
1931 - 1990
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 143
Among people born in 1874, Vsevolod Meyerhold ranks 33. Before him are Gustav Holst, Konstantin Päts, Karl Kraus, Antanas Smetona, Inessa Armand, and Reinhold Glière. After him are Josef Suk, Abbas II of Egypt, Auguste Perret, Joseph Erlanger, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, and John D. Rockefeller Jr.. Among people deceased in 1940, Vsevolod Meyerhold ranks 26. Before him are Spyridon Louis, Italo Balbo, Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, John Buchan, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse. After him are Arthur Harden, Lluís Companys, Eugène Dubois, Kyösti Kallio, Katharina Schratt, and Frederick Cook.
1874 - 1934
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 27
1874 - 1956
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 28
1874 - 1936
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 29
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 30
1874 - 1920
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 31
1874 - 1956
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 32
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 33
1874 - 1935
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 34
1874 - 1944
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 35
1874 - 1954
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 36
1874 - 1965
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 37
1874 - 1940
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 38
1874 - 1960
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 39
1873 - 1940
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 20
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 21
1859 - 1940
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 22
1880 - 1940
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 23
1875 - 1940
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 24
1868 - 1940
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 25
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 26
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 27
1882 - 1940
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 28
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 29
1873 - 1940
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 30
1853 - 1940
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 31
1865 - 1940
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 32
Among people born in Russia, Vsevolod Meyerhold ranks 292 out of 3,262. Before him are Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Nikolay Basov (1922), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), and Andrei Konchalovsky (1937). After him are Dmitry of Uglich (1582), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Feodor Chaliapin (1873), Andrey Markov (1856), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), and Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797).
1963 - Present
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 286
1651 - 1694
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 287
1922 - 2001
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 288
1803 - 1873
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 289
1875 - 1960
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 290
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 291
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 292
1582 - 1591
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 293
1892 - 1938
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 294
1873 - 1938
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 295
1856 - 1922
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 296
1848 - 1926
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 297
1797 - 1870
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 298
Among film directors born in Russia, Vsevolod Meyerhold ranks 4. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), and Andrei Konchalovsky (1937). After him are Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Elem Klimov (1933), Ladislas Starevich (1882), and Yuri Norstein (1941).
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 1
1863 - 1938
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 3
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 4
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 5
1893 - 1953
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 6
1899 - 1970
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 7
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 8
1927 - 2015
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 9
1933 - 2003
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 10
1882 - 1965
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 12