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Valerie Solanas

1936 - 1988

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for her attempt to murder the artist Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas appeared in the Warhol film I, a Man (1967) and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, a feminist pamphlet calling for the extinction of men. She believed Warhol was conspiring with her publisher, Maurice Girodias, to keep her manuscript from getting published. On June 3, 1968, Solanas shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya at the Factory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valerie Solanas is the 1,253rd most popular writer (down from 1,064th in 2019), the 1,796th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,244th in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Writer.

Valerie Solanas is most famous for her radical feminist manifesto, "SCUM Manifesto," in which she advocates for the elimination of men.

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Among writers, Valerie Solanas ranks 1,253 out of 7,302. Before her are Lao She, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Waris Dirie, Léon Bloy, Annette Kellermann, and Richard Henry Dana Jr.. After her are Josef Čapek, John of Ruusbroec, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Émile Gaboriau, and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.

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Lao She
1899 - 1966
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 1,247
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
1848 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 1,248
Waris Dirie
1965 - Present
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 1,249
Léon Bloy
1846 - 1917
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 1,250
Annette Kellermann
1887 - 1975
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 1,251
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
1815 - 1882
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 1,252
Valerie Solanas
1936 - 1988
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 1,253
Josef Čapek
1887 - 1945
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 1,254
John of Ruusbroec
1293 - 1381
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 1,255
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
1539 - 1616
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 1,256
Ivan Kotliarevsky
1769 - 1838
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 1,257
Émile Gaboriau
1832 - 1873
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 1,258
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1812 - 1885
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 1,259

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Valerie Solanas ranks 81. Before her are Engelbert Humperdinck, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Moussa Traoré, Bruce Dern, Yury Luzhkov, and Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa. After her are Bekim Fehmiu, Bill Wyman, Kigeli V of Rwanda, François Pinault, James Mirrlees, and Hiroshi Saeki. Among people deceased in 1988, Valerie Solanas ranks 38. Before her are Luis Barragán, Franz Josef Strauss, Christina Onassis, Farida of Egypt, Henryk Szeryng, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. After her are Gert Fröbe, Heo Jeong, Willem Drees, Hermann Graf, Branko Zebec, and Yevgeny Mravinsky.

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Engelbert Humperdinck
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HPI: 67.16
Rank: 75
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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HPI: 66.87
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Bruce Dern
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1936 - Present
HPI: 66.83
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Yury Luzhkov
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HPI: 66.82
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HPI: 66.79
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HPI: 66.61
Rank: 81
Bekim Fehmiu
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1936 - 2010
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 82
Bill Wyman
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HPI: 66.55
Rank: 83
Kigeli V of Rwanda
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HPI: 66.52
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François Pinault
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1936 - Present
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 85
James Mirrlees
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1936 - 2018
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 86
Hiroshi Saeki
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HPI: 66.49
Rank: 87