1922 - 1993
Juri Lotman (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Lotman has received more than 115,373 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Lotman is the 442nd most popular philosopher (down from 379th in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Russia (down from 310th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Philosopher.
Yuri Lotman was a semiotician who is most famous for his work on the structural analysis of culture.
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Among philosophers, Yuri Lotman ranks 442 out of 1,081. Before him are Arnobius, Michel Serres, P. D. Ouspensky, Kapila, Franz Rosenzweig, and Lucilio Vanini. After him are Brunetto Latini, Ravidas, Yi Hwang, Alan Watts, Madhvacharya, and Alain de Benoist.
255 - 327
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 436
1930 - 2019
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 437
1878 - 1947
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 438
550 BC - Present
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 439
1886 - 1929
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 440
1585 - 1619
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 441
1922 - 1993
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 442
1220 - 1294
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 443
1450 - Present
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 444
1501 - 1570
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 445
1915 - 1973
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 446
1199 - 1278
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 447
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 448
Among people born in 1922, Yuri Lotman ranks 65. Before him are Lucian Freud, Toots Thielemans, Oskar Werner, Joan Fuster, Adolfo Celi, and George Blake. After him are Barbara Bel Geddes, Carl Reiner, Jake LaMotta, Denholm Elliott, María Casares, and Luis Echeverría. Among people deceased in 1993, Yuri Lotman ranks 38. Before him are Arthur Ashe, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Léon Theremin, Jean Negulesco, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and Masahiko Kimura. After him are Boris Christoff, Hans Baur, Pat Nixon, Severo Ochoa, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, and Jimmy Doolittle.
1922 - 2011
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 59
1922 - 2016
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 60
1922 - 1984
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 61
1922 - 1992
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 62
1922 - 1986
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 63
1922 - 2020
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 64
1922 - 1993
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 65
1922 - 2005
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 66
1922 - 2020
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 67
1922 - 2017
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 68
1922 - 1992
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 69
1922 - 1996
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 70
1922 - 2022
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 71
1943 - 1993
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 32
1921 - 1993
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 33
1896 - 1993
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 34
1900 - 1993
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 35
1905 - 1993
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 36
1917 - 1993
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 37
1922 - 1993
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 38
1914 - 1993
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 39
1897 - 1993
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 40
1912 - 1993
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 41
1905 - 1993
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 42
1912 - 1993
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 43
1896 - 1993
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 44
Among people born in Russia, Yuri Lotman ranks 421 out of 3,262. Before him are Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Rinat Dasayev (1957), and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882). After him are Yuri Nikulin (1921), Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Prince Albert of Prussia (1809), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), and Lauri Törni (1919).
1783 - 1852
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 415
1900 - 1999
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 416
1902 - 1976
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 417
1154 - 1212
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 418
1957 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 419
1882 - 1957
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 420
1922 - 1993
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 421
1921 - 1997
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 422
1903 - 1979
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 423
1809 - 1872
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 424
1896 - 1970
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 425
1844 - 1919
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 426
1919 - 1965
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 427
Among philosophers born in Russia, Yuri Lotman ranks 9. Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), and Johann Georg Hamann (1730). After him are Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Pyotr Lavrov (1823), and Volin (1882).
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 3
1856 - 1918
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 4
1853 - 1900
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 5
1892 - 1964
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 6
1902 - 1968
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 7
1730 - 1788
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 8
1922 - 1993
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 9
1871 - 1944
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 10
1883 - 1954
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 11
1700 - 1766
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 12
1829 - 1903
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 13
1823 - 1900
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 14
1882 - 1945
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 15