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Burl Ives

1909 - 1995

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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army and became a major star of CBS Radio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Burl Ives has received more than 4,222,664 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Burl Ives is the 2,606th most popular actor (down from 2,196th in 2019), the 4,063rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,609th in 2019) and the 1,186th most popular American Actor.

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  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Burl Ives ranks 2,606 out of 13,578Before him are Zlatko Burić, Luis Mariano, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Jane Badler, Margaux Hemingway, and Murray Head. After him are Anil Kapoor, Joe E. Tata, Hedda Hopper, Sean Astin, Matthew Lillard, and Julio Baghy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Burl Ives ranks 167Before him are Tom Ewell, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, John Haigh, Edwin H. Land, Leone Ginzburg, and Wang Zhen. After him are Spyros Markezinis, Hans Hotter, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Marion Dönhoff, Ashapurna Devi, and Pietro Arcari. Among people deceased in 1995, Burl Ives ranks 142Before him are Anatoly Tarasov, Václav Ježek, Lev Polugaevsky, Gisela Mauermayer, Osvaldo Pugliese, and Kukrit Pramoj. After him are Oles Honchar, John Brunner, Dany Robin, Vladimir Ivashov, Ashapurna Devi, and Jesús Garay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Burl Ives ranks 4,063 out of 20,380Before him are James Mangold (1963), James Hillman (1926), Anne Tyler (1941), Jane Badler (1953), Margaux Hemingway (1954), and Larry Clark (1943). After him are David Koresh (1959), George Crumb (1929), Joe E. Tata (1936), Hedda Hopper (1885), Michael Kahn (1935), and Sean Astin (1971).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Burl Ives ranks 1,186Before him are William Katt (1951), Lana Wood (1946), Dorothy McGuire (1916), Kate Walsh (1967), Jane Badler (1953), and Margaux Hemingway (1954). After him are Joe E. Tata (1936), Hedda Hopper (1885), Sean Astin (1971), Matthew Lillard (1970), Kevin McCarthy (1914), and Robert Prosky (1930).