WRITER

Pierre Benoit

1886 - 1962

Pierre Benoit

Pierre Benoit (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ bənwa]; 16 July 1886 – 3 March 1962) was a French novelist, screenwriter and member of the Académie française. He is perhaps best known for his second novel L'Atlantide (1919) that has been filmed several times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Benoit is the 3,360th most popular writer (down from 2,742nd in 2019), the 3,454th most popular biography from France (down from 2,993rd in 2019) and the 433rd most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Pierre Benoit ranks 3,360 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucius Varius Rufus, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Yulian Semyonov, Ford Madox Ford, and Ghada al-Samman. After him are R. J. Palacio, E. Nesbit, Denis Davydov, Jean Effel, Giosafat Barbaro, and Peter Benchley.

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HPI: 59.50
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
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HPI: 59.50
Rank: 3,355
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
1802 - 1872
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Yulian Semyonov
1931 - 1993
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Rank: 3,357
Ford Madox Ford
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HPI: 59.49
Rank: 3,358
Ghada al-Samman
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 3,359
Pierre Benoit
1886 - 1962
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 3,360
R. J. Palacio
1963 - Present
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 3,361
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1858 - 1924
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 3,362
Denis Davydov
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HPI: 59.47
Rank: 3,363
Jean Effel
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HPI: 59.47
Rank: 3,364
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1413 - 1494
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 3,365
Peter Benchley
1940 - 2006
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 3,366

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Pierre Benoit ranks 166. Before him are Divna Veković, Kálmán Darányi, Al Jolson, Chester Barnard, Alexander Miasnikian, and Edgar Rubin. After him are Aloïse Corbaz, Georges Vantongerloo, Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, Stanisław Leśniewski, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, and Peter Freuchen. Among people deceased in 1962, Pierre Benoit ranks 108. Before him are Charles Galton Darwin, Luigi Carnera, Paavo Aaltonen, Candido Portinari, Richard Herrmann, and Hermann Muhs. After him are Philippe Cattiau, Franz Kaiser, Sylvia Beach, Kunio Yanagita, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, and Paul Götz.

Others Born in 1886

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Divna Veković
PHYSICIAN
1886 - 1944
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 160
Kálmán Darányi
POLITICIAN
1886 - 1939
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 161
Al Jolson
SINGER
1886 - 1950
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 162
Chester Barnard
ECONOMIST
1886 - 1961
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 163
Alexander Miasnikian
POLITICIAN
1886 - 1925
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 164
Edgar Rubin
PSYCHOLOGIST
1886 - 1951
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 165
Pierre Benoit
WRITER
1886 - 1962
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 166
Aloïse Corbaz
PAINTER
1886 - 1964
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 167
Georges Vantongerloo
PAINTER
1886 - 1965
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 168
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
POLITICIAN
1886 - 1960
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 169
Stanisław Leśniewski
MATHEMATICIAN
1886 - 1939
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 170
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster
PHYSICIST
1886 - 1950
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 171
Peter Freuchen
EXPLORER
1886 - 1957
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 172