1053th most famous person in the world!

Sir Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist renowned for his works combining magic realism with historical fiction. His novel 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker Prize and is highly acclaimed.

This is based on winning 6 head-to-head matchups with other famous people, but also losing 16 head-to-head matchups.

Most recently Salman Rushdie lost a matchup to Chance the Rapper (#889) voted by someone from United States.