DANCER

Bobby Farrell

1949 - 2010

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Roberto Alfonso Farrell (6 October 1949 – 30 December 2010) was an Aruban dancer, visual performer, singer and DJ. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bobby Farrell has received more than 4,490,898 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Bobby Farrell is the 8th most popular dancer (up from 9th in 2019), the most popular biography from Aruba and the most popular Aruban Dancer.

Bobby Farrell is most famous for being the lead singer of the rock band Boney M.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Bobby Farrell ranks 8 out of 116. Before him are Isadora Duncan, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Pina Bausch. After him are Marius Petipa, Marie Taglioni, Maurice Béjart, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Maya Plisetskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Bobby Farrell ranks 26. Before him are Bruce Springsteen, Roger Taylor, Sandra Mason, Slavoj Žižek, Thomas Sankara, and Jessica Lange. After him are Carlos the Jackal, George Foreman, Alla Pugacheva, Sebastián Piñera, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Jeff Bridges. Among people deceased in 2010, Bobby Farrell ranks 9. Before him are Lech Kaczyński, Leslie Nielsen, Gloria Stuart, Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, and Benoit Mandelbrot. After him are Dennis Hopper, Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Georges Charpak.

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In Aruba

Among people born in Aruba, Bobby Farrell ranks 1 out of 8. After him are Maurice Bishop (1943), Dave Benton (1951), Frits Goedgedrag (1951), Fredis Refunjol (1950), Nelson Oduber (1947), Mike Eman (1961), Xander Bogaerts (1992), and Mikel Schreuders (1998).

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Among DANCERS In Aruba

Among dancers born in Aruba, Bobby Farrell ranks 1. 

Aruban born Dancers

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