Fashion Designer

Yves Saint Laurent

French fashion designer

1936 - 2008

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Yves Saint Laurent

His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2024). Yves Saint Laurent is the 4th most popular fashion designer (down from 3rd in 2024), the 7th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Fashion Designer.

Yves Saint Laurent is most famous for being a French fashion designer. He is best known for founding the luxury fashion house that bears his name.

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#7 / 270

Yves Saint Laurent ranks #7 among 270 people in Pantheon born in Algeria, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Yves Saint Laurent's biography appears in 61 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 92% of all Fashion Designers.

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Among Fashion Designers

Among fashion designers, Yves Saint Laurent ranks 4 out of 57. Before him are Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, and Calvin Klein. After him are Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, Maurizio Gucci, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Ralph Lauren, and Donatella Versace.

Most Popular Fashion Designers in Wikipedia

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Coco Chanel
1883 - 1971
HPI: 85.25
Rank: 1
Karl Lagerfeld
1933 - 2019
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 2
Calvin Klein
1942 - Present
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 3
Yves Saint Laurent
1936 - 2008
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 4
Christian Dior
1905 - 1957
HPI: 78.14
Rank: 5
Pierre Cardin
1922 - 2020
HPI: 75.55
Rank: 6
Maurizio Gucci
1948 - 1995
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 7
Jean-Paul Gaultier
1952 - Present
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 8
Vivienne Westwood
1941 - 2022
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 9
Cristóbal Balenciaga
1895 - 1972
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 10
Ralph Lauren
1939 - Present
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 11
Donatella Versace
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 12

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Yves Saint Laurent ranks 6. Before him are Pope Francis, Silvio Berlusconi, Václav Havel, Sepp Blatter, and Mario Vargas Llosa. After him are Robert Redford, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Barry Barish, Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, and Ismail Kadare. Among people deceased in 2008, Yves Saint Laurent ranks 3. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Paul Newman. After him are Suharto, Bobby Fischer, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Edmund Hillary, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.

Others Born in 1936

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Pope Francis
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1936 - 2025
HPI: 97.04
Rank: 1
Silvio Berlusconi
POLITICIAN
1936 - 2023
HPI: 84.19
Rank: 2
Václav Havel
WRITER
1936 - 2011
HPI: 81.32
Rank: 3
Sepp Blatter
BUSINESSPERSON
1936 - Present
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 4
Mario Vargas Llosa
WRITER
1936 - 2025
HPI: 80.93
Rank: 5
Yves Saint Laurent
FASHION DESIGNER
1936 - 2008
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 6
Robert Redford
ACTOR
1936 - 2025
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 7
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
POLITICIAN
1936 - 2019
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 8
Barry Barish
PHYSICIST
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 9
Amancio Ortega
BUSINESSPERSON
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 10
Mikhail Tal
CHESS PLAYER
1936 - 1992
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 11
Ismail Kadare
WRITER
1936 - 2024
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 12

Others Deceased in 2008

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
WRITER
1918 - 2008
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 1
Paul Newman
ACTOR
1925 - 2008
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 2
Yves Saint Laurent
FASHION DESIGNER
1936 - 2008
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 3
Suharto
POLITICIAN
1921 - 2008
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 4
Bobby Fischer
CHESS PLAYER
1943 - 2008
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 5
Chinghiz Aitmatov
WRITER
1928 - 2008
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 6
Edmund Hillary
MOUNTAINEER
1919 - 2008
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 7
Charlton Heston
ACTOR
1923 - 2008
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 8
Arthur C. Clarke
WRITER
1917 - 2008
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 9
Samuel P. Huntington
POLITICAL SCIENTIST
1927 - 2008
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 10
Willis Lamb
PHYSICIST
1913 - 2008
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 11
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
PHYSICIAN
1923 - 2008
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 12