1941 - 2022
Wolfgang Petersen (14 March 1941 – 12 August 2022) was a German filmmaker. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Petersen has received more than 1,879,730 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Wolfgang Petersen is the 92nd most popular film director (up from 98th in 2019), the 558th most popular biography from Germany (down from 556th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Film Director.
Wolfgang Petersen is most famous for directing "The Perfect Storm" and "In the Line of Fire."
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Among film directors, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 92 out of 1,581. Before him are Carlos Saura, Satyajit Ray, René Clair, Christopher Nolan, Fred Zinnemann, and Andrzej Żuławski. After him are Tony Scott, Kenji Mizoguchi, George A. Romero, William Hanna, Howard Hawks, and Walter Hill.
1932 - 2023
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 86
1921 - 1992
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 87
1898 - 1981
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 88
1970 - Present
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 89
1907 - 1997
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 90
1940 - 2016
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 91
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 92
1944 - 2012
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 93
1898 - 1956
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 94
1940 - 2017
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 95
1910 - 2001
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 96
1896 - 1977
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 97
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 98
Among people born in 1941, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 42. Before him are Bernie Sanders, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Nathalie Delon, Gheorghe Zamfir, Art Garfunkel, and Riccardo Muti. After him are Ali Hassan al-Majid, Dennis Ritchie, Anne Rice, Jürgen Prochnow, Chick Corea, and Bobby Moore. Among people deceased in 2022, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 31. Before him are Yusuf al-Qaradawi, James Caan, Margaret Keane, Robbie Coltrane, Meat Loaf, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. After him are Ben Roy Mottelson, Peter Brook, Olivia Newton-John, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Thierry Mugler, and Lata Mangeshkar.
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 36
1941 - 1989
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 37
1941 - 2021
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 38
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 39
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 40
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 41
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 42
1941 - 2010
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 43
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 44
1941 - 2021
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 45
1941 - Present
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 46
1941 - 2021
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 47
1941 - 1993
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 48
1926 - 2022
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 25
1940 - 2022
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 26
1927 - 2022
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 27
1950 - 2022
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 28
1947 - 2022
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 29
1946 - 2022
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 30
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 31
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 32
1925 - 2022
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 33
1948 - 2022
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 34
1945 - 2022
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 35
1948 - 2022
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 36
1929 - 2022
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 37
Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 558 out of 6,142. Before him are Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Karl Ziegler (1898), Kurt Meyer (1910), Heinrich Brüning (1885), Erich Hoepner (1886), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604). After him are Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Karl Gebhardt (1897), Rupert, King of Germany (1352), and John of Saxony (1801).
1847 - 1897
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 552
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 553
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 554
1885 - 1970
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 555
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 556
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 557
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 558
1750 - 1806
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 559
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 560
1843 - 1916
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 561
1897 - 1948
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 562
1352 - 1410
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 563
1801 - 1873
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 564
Among film directors born in Germany, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 8. Before him are Wim Wenders (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Werner Herzog (1942), F. W. Murnau (1888), and Ernst Lubitsch (1892). After him are Roland Emmerich (1955), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Max Ophüls (1902), Robert Siodmak (1900), Thea von Harbou (1888), and Douglas Sirk (1897).
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 3
1945 - 1982
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 4
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 5
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 6
1892 - 1947
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 7
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 10
1902 - 1957
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 11
1900 - 1973
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 12
1888 - 1954
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 13
1897 - 1987
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 14