1935 - Today
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Woody Allen has received more than 23,318,232 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Woody Allen is the 9th most popular film director (up from 10th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from United States (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Film Director.
Woody Allen is most famous for his comedy films, which he writes, directs, and stars in.
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Among film directors, Woody Allen ranks 9 out of 1,581. Before him are Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, and Hayao Miyazaki. After him are Ridley Scott, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, and Luis Buñuel.
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 3
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 5
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 6
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 7
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 9
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 11
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 13
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 14
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1935, Woody Allen ranks 6. Before him are Alain Delon, Elvis Presley, 14th Dalai Lama, Luciano Pavarotti, and Salman of Saudi Arabia. After him are José Mujica, Mahmoud Abbas, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Hussein of Jordan, Donald Sutherland, and Françoise Sagan.
1935 - Present
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 1
1935 - 1977
HPI: 83.18
Rank: 2
1935 - Present
HPI: 79.98
Rank: 3
1935 - 2007
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 4
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 5
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 6
1935 - Present
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 7
1935 - Present
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 9
1935 - 1999
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 10
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 11
1935 - 2004
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Woody Allen ranks 81 out of 18,182. Before him are Warren Buffett (1930), John Dewey (1859), James Dean (1931), Woodrow Wilson (1856), Robin Williams (1951), and Bill Clinton (1946). After him are Bob Dylan (1941), Jack Nicholson (1937), Samuel Morse (1791), Jeff Bezos (1964), Jimi Hendrix (1942), and Tina Turner (1939).
1930 - Present
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 75
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 76
1931 - 1955
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 77
1856 - 1924
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 78
1951 - 2014
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 79
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 80
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 81
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 82
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 83
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 84
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 85
1942 - 1970
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 86
1939 - Present
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 87
Among film directors born in United States, Woody Allen ranks 4. Before him are Steven Spielberg (1946), Martin Scorsese (1942), and Stanley Kubrick (1928). After him are Francis Ford Coppola (1939), David Lynch (1946), George Lucas (1944), Quentin Tarantino (1963), John Ford (1894), Tim Burton (1958), Brian De Palma (1940), and Sydney Pollack (1934).
1946 - Present
HPI: 83.80
Rank: 1
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 2
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 4
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 5
1946 - Present
HPI: 72.15
Rank: 6
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 7
1963 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 8
1894 - 1973
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 10
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 11
1934 - 2008
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 12