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Alexander McQueen

1969 - 2010

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Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the Council of Fashion Designers of America International Designer of the Year award in 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander McQueen has received more than 9,057,311 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alexander McQueen is the 36th most popular designer (down from 35th in 2019), the 1,355th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,272nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Alexander McQueen ranks 36 out of 104. Before him are Pierre Balmain, Claude Garamond, Dieter Rams, Salvatore Ferragamo, Giambattista Bodoni, and Josiah Wedgwood. After him are Beau Brummell, Jeanne Lanvin, Mariano Fortuny, Adrian Frutiger, Andokides painter, and Jimmy Choo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Alexander McQueen ranks 46. Before him are Dave Bautista, Tucker Carlson, Darren Aronofsky, Fernando Redondo, Paul Rudd, and Ali Daei. After him are Predrag Mijatović, Santiago Cañizares, Simon Baker, Anne Heche, Pauley Perrette, and Dana International. Among people deceased in 2010, Alexander McQueen ranks 75. Before him are Solomon Burke, Martin Gardner, Iskandar of Johor, Fess Parker, Malcolm McLaren, and Günter Behnisch. After him are Teddy Scholten, Laurent Fignon, Johan Ferrier, Peter Graves, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Pierre Hadot.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander McQueen ranks 1,355 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Burke (1937), Gideon Mantell (1790), Ted Hughes (1930), Lennox Lewis (1965), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), and Joseph Paxton (1803). After him are Eileen Essell (1922), Gary Brooker (1945), George Cayley (1773), Geoff Hurst (1941), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), and Edward Gordon Craig (1872).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, Alexander McQueen ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Andrews (1873), William Morris (1834), Thomas Chippendale (1718), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), and Josiah Wedgwood (1730). After him are Beau Brummell (1778), John Baskerville (1706), Paul Smith (1946), Laura Ashley (1925), Storm Thorgerson (1944), and Jony Ive (1967).

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