CELEBRITY

Annie Oakley

1860 - 1926

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Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At age 15, she won a shooting contest against an experienced marksman, Frank E. Butler, whom she married in 1876. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Oakley has received more than 5,170,691 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Annie Oakley is the 62nd most popular celebrity (down from 56th in 2019), the 2,704th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,345th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Celebrity.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Annie Oakley ranks 62 out of 265. Before her are Jean-Marie Loret, Paris Hilton, Kim Ung-yong, Fritz Pfeffer, Nicolas Chopin, and Lizzie Borden. After her are Edie Sedgwick, Dan Inosanto, Florence Owens Thompson, Christine Keeler, Roy Sullivan, and Victor Kugler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Annie Oakley ranks 60. Before her are Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Walter Sickert, Christen C. Raunkiær, Sunanda Kumariratana, Sidney Paget, and Lizzie Borden. After her are Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katō Takaaki, Simon Dubnow, Karel Kramář, William Bates, and Paul Ulrich Villard. Among people deceased in 1926, Annie Oakley ranks 47. Before her are Robert Todd Lincoln, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Nikolay Chkheidze, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Ye Wanyong, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. After her are Helen Allingham, Leonid Krasin, Katō Takaaki, Ivana Kobilca, Victor Babeș, and Lars Magnus Ericsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Oakley ranks 2,704 out of 20,380. Before her are Peter Boyle (1935), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Jason Newsted (1963), Sylvia Sidney (1910), James Taylor (1948), and Richard Brooks (1912). After her are Taylor Hackford (1944), Mickey Cohen (1913), Elgin Baylor (1934), Maurice White (1941), William Joyce (1906), and Jef Raskin (1943).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Annie Oakley ranks 21. Before her are Don King (1931), Rodney King (1965), Sarah Knauss (1880), Kim Peek (1951), Paris Hilton (1981), and Lizzie Borden (1860). After her are Edie Sedgwick (1943), Dan Inosanto (1936), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Roy Sullivan (1912), Evelyn McHale (1923), and Madeleine Astor (1893).

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