ACTOR

Alain Delon

1935 - 2024

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Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (French: [alɛ̃ dəlɔ̃]; 8 November 1935 – 18 August 2024) was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and became an international sex symbol. He is regarded as one of the most well-known figures of the French cultural landscape. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Delon has received more than 9,767,269 page views. His biography is available in 119 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Alain Delon is the 5th most popular actor, the 18th most popular biography from France (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular French Actor.

Alain Delon is most famous for his role in the French film "Plein Soleil" (Purple Noon) in 1960.

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  • 9.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 83.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 119

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alain Delon ranks 5 out of 13,578. Before him are Sylvester Stallone, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, and Anthony Hopkins. After him are Bruce Lee, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert De Niro, and Audrey Hepburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Alain Delon ranks 1. After him are Elvis Presley, Mahmoud Abbas, Luciano Pavarotti, 14th Dalai Lama, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Woody Allen, José Mujica, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Kenzaburō Ōe, Donald Sutherland, and Françoise Sagan. Among people deceased in 2024, Alain Delon ranks 1. After him are Franz Beckenbauer, Mário Zagallo, Maggie Smith, Daniel Kahneman, Donald Sutherland, Alberto Fujimori, Fethullah Gülen, Peter Higgs, Paul Auster, Anouk Aimée, and Alice Munro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Delon ranks 18 out of 6,770. Before him are Montesquieu (1689), Louis XV of France (1710), Molière (1622), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Honoré de Balzac (1799), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905). After him are Henri Matisse (1869), John Calvin (1509), Paul Cézanne (1839), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Brigitte Bardot (1934), and Napoleon II (1811).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Alain Delon ranks 1. After him are Brigitte Bardot (1934), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Louis de Funès (1914), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Gérard Depardieu (1948), Jean Marais (1913), Jean Gabin (1904), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Philippe Noiret (1930), and Gérard Philipe (1922).

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