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Billie Burke

1884 - 1970

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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Burke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live (1938). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billie Burke has received more than 3,337,901 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Billie Burke is the 3,463rd most popular actor (down from 3,094th in 2019), the 5,346th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,956th in 2019) and the 1,631st most popular American Actor.

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  • 3.3M

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  • 48.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Billie Burke ranks 3,463 out of 9,996. Before her are Daniel Bernhardt, Henry Czerny, Toby Stephens, Pearl White, Adela Noriega, and Davy Jones. After her are Song Seung-heon, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Kim Raver, Kim Dickens, Francesca Neri, and Martina Gedeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Billie Burke ranks 138. Before her are Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Oliver Kirk, Bohumil Kubišta, Ants Piip, and Dobri Bozhilov. After her are Ömer Seyfettin, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Sara Teasdale, Claes Johanson, Michel de Klerk, and Harry Ferguson. Among people deceased in 1970, Billie Burke ranks 159. Before her are Kiichiro Higuchi, Ed Begley, František Junek, Nathan Alterman, Abraham Alikhanov, and Cyril Scott. After her are Eva Hesse, Orhan Kemal, Johnny Hodges, Alfred Sturtevant, Pierre Mac Orlan, and Ralph Hartley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Billie Burke ranks 5,346 out of 18,182. Before her are Jesse L. Lasky (1880), Caroline Harrison (1832), Pearl White (1889), Margaret Weis (1948), David Rittenhouse (1732), and Manny Ayulo (1921). After her are Mississippi John Hurt (1892), John Warner (1927), Carl Icahn (1936), Willis Reed (1942), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), and Kim Raver (1969).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Billie Burke ranks 1,631. Before her are Leslie Grossman (1971), Marie Doro (1882), Betsy Palmer (1926), Frances Sternhagen (1930), Tom Noonan (1951), and Pearl White (1889). After her are Kim Raver (1969), Kim Dickens (1965), Michael Gross (1947), William Windom (1923), Leslie Mann (1972), and Robert Picardo (1953).

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