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Khalil Gibran

1883 - 1931

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Khalil Gibran was a writer born in 1883 in , which is now part of modern day Bsharri, Lebanon. Khalil Gibran died at 48 years old in NaN.

His biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2024). Khalil Gibran is the 35th most popular writer (up from 202nd in 2024), the most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Writer.

Khalil Gibran is most famous for his book The Prophet. The book is a collection of poetry and prose that was written in 1923.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Khalil Gibran ranks 35 out of 7,302. Before him are Aesop, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, and H. G. Wells. After him are Anne Frank, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, and Emily Dickinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Khalil Gibran ranks 3. Before him are Franz Kafka, and Benito Mussolini. After him are Coco Chanel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Anton Webern, Walter Gropius, Victor Francis Hess, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, and Joseph Schumpeter. Among people deceased in 1931, Khalil Gibran ranks 2. Before him is Thomas Edison. After him are Albert A. Michelson, Otto Wallach, Gustave Le Bon, Anna Pavlova, Louise, Princess Royal, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Arthur Schnitzler, Lili Elbe, and Bhagat Singh.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran ranks 1 out of 145. After him are Severus Alexander (208), Porphyry (233), Dido (-879), Pope Sisinnius (650), Pope Constantine (664), Keanu Reeves (1964), Ahab (-900), Ulpian (170), Michel Aoun (1935), Hassan Nasrallah (1960), and Charbel Makhlouf (1828).

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Among Writers In Lebanon

Among writers born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran ranks 1. After him are Amin Maalouf (1949), Antipater of Sidon (-200), Etel Adnan (1925), Philo of Byblos (64), Butrus al-Bustani (1819), Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Charles Malik (1906), Elias Khoury (1948), Said Akl (1911), Sanchuniathon (-150), and Wajdi Mouawad (1968).

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