Actor

Elizabeth Taylor

British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian

1932 - 2011

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Her biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 112 in 2024). Elizabeth Taylor is the 37th most popular actor (up from 54th in 2024), the 107th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 96th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Actor.

Elizabeth Taylor is most famous for her acting career, which spanned six decades and won her two Academy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards.

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5.3M

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Past 12 months

80.56

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114

Elizabeth Taylor's biography appears in 114 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Actors.

Feb 27

Elizabeth Taylor shares a February 27 birthday with Constantine the Great, John Steinbeck, and Paul Ricœur.

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Elizabeth Taylor's Wikipedia page drew 5.3M views over the past year — 11× the average among Actors.

1.1M

Elizabeth Taylor's biography drew 1.1M page views from non-English Wikipedia editions in the past year — fame that reaches well beyond the English-speaking world.

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Among Actors

Among actors, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 37 out of 13,578. Before her are Morgan Freeman, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Nicholson, Jean Reno, Romy Schneider, and Dustin Hoffman. After her are Bud Spencer, Bruce Willis, Marcello Mastroianni, Gérard Depardieu, Nicolas Cage, and Debbie Reynolds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 4. Before her are Umberto Eco, Manmohan Singh, and Jacques Chirac. After her are Debbie Reynolds, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Andrei Tarkovsky, Omar Sharif, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, and John Williams. Among people deceased in 2011, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 6. Before her are Steve Jobs, Kim Jong-il, Muammar Gaddafi, Wangari Maathai, and Václav Havel. After her are Osama bin Laden, Otto von Habsburg, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, and Burhanuddin Rabbani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 107 out of 8,785. Before her are John Dee (1527), Alex Ferguson (1941), Jane Austen (1775), Edward Heath (1916), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), and Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) (1556). After her are Robert Falcon Scott (1868), Edgar the Peaceful (943), David Ricardo (1772), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), William Gilbert (1544), and Thomas Robert Malthus (1766).

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Among Actors In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 5. Before her are Charlie Chaplin (1889), Anthony Hopkins (1937), Richard Burton (1925), and Sean Connery (1930). After her are Christopher Lee (1922), Alan Rickman (1946), Liam Neeson (1952), Maggie Smith (1934), Ian McKellen (1939), Michael Caine (1933), and Rowan Atkinson (1955).

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