1929 - 2007
Walter Kempowski (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ kɛmˈpɔfskiː] ; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Kempowski has received more than 81,680 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Walter Kempowski is the 4,281st most popular writer (down from 3,568th in 2019), the 3,930th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,293rd in 2019) and the 255th most popular German Writer.
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Among writers, Walter Kempowski ranks 4,281 out of 5,755. Before him are José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, C. L. Moore, Jean Tardieu, Jules Lemaître, James Lee Burke, and François Tristan l'Hermite. After him are Anne Carson, Yōko Ogawa, Mato Kósyk, Georges Eekhoud, Pierre Michon, and Elizabeth Gilbert.
1776 - 1827
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 4,275
1911 - 1987
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 4,276
1903 - 1995
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 4,277
1853 - 1914
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 4,278
1936 - Present
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 4,279
1601 - 1655
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 4,280
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 4,281
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,282
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,283
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,284
1854 - 1927
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,285
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,286
1969 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,287
Among people born in 1929, Walter Kempowski ranks 317. Before him are Lyubov Kozyreva, Claude Nougaro, Rudi Glöckner, Francesco Marchisano, Rajkumar, and Jacques Plante. After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Chaim Potok, Klara Rumyanova, Héctor Alterio, Dilara Aliyeva, and Henry E. Holt. Among people deceased in 2007, Walter Kempowski ranks 225. Before him are Antonio Puerta, Frankie Laine, Ellen Preis, Miyoshi Umeki, Maurice Boitel, and Betty Hutton. After him are László Kovács, Joey Bishop, Helen Walton, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Paek Nam-sun, and Giuseppe Baldo.
1929 - 2015
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 311
1929 - 2004
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 312
1929 - 1999
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 313
1929 - 2014
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 314
1929 - 2006
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 315
1929 - 1986
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 316
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 317
1929 - 2017
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 318
1929 - 2002
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 319
1929 - 2004
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 320
1929 - Present
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 321
1929 - 1991
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 322
1929 - 2019
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 323
1984 - 2007
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 219
1913 - 2007
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 220
1912 - 2007
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 221
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 222
1919 - 2007
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 223
1921 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 224
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 225
1933 - 2007
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 226
1918 - 2007
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 227
1919 - 2007
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 228
1930 - 2007
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 229
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 230
1914 - 2007
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 231
Among people born in Germany, Walter Kempowski ranks 3,930 out of 6,142. Before him are Johan Zoffany (1733), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Uwe Rahn (1962), Frank Shorter (1947), Elisabeth Schumann (1888), and Michael Gwisdek (1942). After him are Ernst Hoppenberg (1878), Jeri Ryan (1968), Bruno Labbadia (1966), Mato Kósyk (1853), Claudia Pechstein (1972), and Carl Humann (1839).
1733 - 1810
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 3,924
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 3,925
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 3,926
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 3,927
1888 - 1952
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 3,928
1942 - 2020
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 3,929
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 3,930
1878 - 1937
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,931
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,932
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,933
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,934
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 3,935
1839 - 1896
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 3,936
Among writers born in Germany, Walter Kempowski ranks 255. Before him are Curt Siodmak (1902), Johann Beckmann (1739), Leopold Andrian (1875), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), and Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746). After him are Mato Kósyk (1853), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Emanuel Geibel (1815), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Fredric Wertham (1895), and Peter Scholl-Latour (1924).
1902 - 2000
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 249
1739 - 1811
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 250
1875 - 1951
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 251
1815 - 1894
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 252
1613 - 1676
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 253
1746 - 1818
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 254
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 255
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 256
1916 - 1991
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 257
1815 - 1884
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 258
1940 - 2019
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 259
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 260
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 261