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Amitabh Bachchan

1942 - Today

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Amitabh Bachchan (pronounced [əmɪˈtaːbʱ ˈbətʃːən]; born Inquilaab Srivastava; 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer and former politician. He is regarded as one of the greatest and influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. During the 1970s–1980s, he was the most dominant actor in the Indian movie scene; the French director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amitabh Bachchan has received more than 18,406,778 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Amitabh Bachchan is the 10th most popular actor (up from 15th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from India (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Actor.

Amitabh Bachchan is most famous for his roles in movies such as "The Great Gatsby," "The Godfather," and "The Dark Knight."

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  • 103

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 10 out of 10,030. Before him are Bruce Lee, Alain Delon, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and Audrey Hepburn. After him are Anthony Hopkins, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Morgan Freeman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 5. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking, Martin Scorsese, and Muammar Gaddafi. After him are Paul McCartney, Joe Biden, Eusébio, Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, Hu Jintao, and Harrison Ford.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 5 out of 1,227. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), George Orwell (1903), Ashoka (-304), and Rajneesh (1931). After him are Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Ramakrishna (1836), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Vivien Leigh (1913), and Jawaharlal Nehru (1889).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 1. After him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Salman Khan (1965), Aishwarya Rai (1973), Julie Christie (1940), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Aamir Khan (1965), Ajay Devgn (1969), Dharmendra (1935), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), Amrish Puri (1932), and Hema Malini (1948).

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