1910 - 2001
William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, cartoonist, and musician.After working odd jobs in the first months of the Great Depression, Hanna joined the Harman and Ising animation studio in 1930. During the 1930s, Hanna steadily gained skill and prominence while working on cartoons such as Captain and the Kids. In 1937, while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hanna met Joseph Barbera. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hanna has received more than 1,981,820 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). William Hanna is the 81st most popular film director (up from 116th in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from United States (up from 820th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Film Director.
William Hanna is most famous for his work with partner Joseph Barbera. Together, they created the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry, as well as other cartoons like The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound.
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Among film directors, William Hanna ranks 81 out of 1,580. Before him are Takeshi Kitano, Stephen Hillenburg, Dario Argento, Costa-Gavras, Richard Attenborough, and Dziga Vertov. After him are Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sergei Parajanov, David Lean, David Cronenberg, Joel Schumacher, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 75
1961 - 2018
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 76
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 77
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 78
1923 - 2014
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 79
1896 - 1954
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 80
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 81
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 82
1924 - 1990
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 83
1908 - 1991
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 84
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 85
1939 - 2020
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 86
1889 - 1968
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 87
Among people born in 1910, William Hanna ranks 19. Before him are Ronald Coase, Walter Schellenberg, Eric Berne, David Niven, Kurt Meyer, and Gerda Taro. After him are Dorothy Hodgkin, Jacques Monod, Samuel Barber, William Shockley, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Byung-chul. Among people deceased in 2001, William Hanna ranks 17. Before him are Jack Lemmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Christiaan Barnard, Iannis Xenakis, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Fred Hoyle, Robert Ludlum, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Alberto Korda, Wilhelm Mohnke, and John Lee Hooker.
1910 - 2013
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 13
1910 - 1952
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 14
1910 - 1970
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 15
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 16
1910 - 1961
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 17
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 18
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 19
1910 - 1994
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 20
1910 - 1976
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 21
1910 - 1981
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 22
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 23
1910 - 1988
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 24
1910 - 1987
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 25
1925 - 2001
HPI: 75.09
Rank: 11
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 12
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 13
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 14
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 15
1909 - 2001
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 16
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 17
1915 - 2001
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 18
1927 - 2001
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 19
1939 - 2001
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 20
1928 - 2001
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 21
1911 - 2001
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 22
1917 - 2001
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, William Hanna ranks 574 out of 15,968. Before him are Steven Tyler (1948), Ted Kennedy (1932), Alan Shepard (1923), Willem Dafoe (1955), Nancy Reagan (1921), and Harriet Tubman (1820). After him are Rod Steiger (1925), Carrie Fisher (1956), Martha Graham (1894), Nancy Sinatra (1940), Bing Crosby (1903), and Ruth Benedict (1887).
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 568
1932 - 2009
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 569
1923 - 1998
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 570
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 571
1921 - 2016
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 572
1820 - 1913
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 573
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 574
1925 - 2002
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 575
1956 - 2016
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 576
1894 - 1991
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 577
1940 - Present
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 578
1903 - 1977
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 579
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 580
Among film directors born in United States, William Hanna ranks 20. Before him are Terry Gilliam (1940), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Terrence Malick (1943), George A. Romero (1940), Howard Hawks (1896), and Stephen Hillenburg (1961). After him are Joel Schumacher (1939), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Oliver Stone (1946), John Huston (1906), Victor Fleming (1889), and Sidney Lumet (1924).
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 14
1952 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 15
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 16
1940 - 2017
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 17
1896 - 1977
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 18
1961 - 2018
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 19
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 20
1939 - 2020
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 21
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 22
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 23
1906 - 1987
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 24
1889 - 1949
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 25
1924 - 2011
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 26