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PHOTOGRAPHER

Cecil Beaton

1904 - 1980

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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cecil Beaton has received more than 1,194,279 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Cecil Beaton is the 49th most popular photographer (up from 54th in 2019), the 2,040th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,056th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Cecil Beaton ranks 49 out of 105. Before him are Carl Van Vechten, Astrid Kirchherr, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Oliviero Toscani, Marc Riboud, and Gisèle Freund. After him are Karl Blossfeldt, Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, Ansel Adams, Lennart Nilsson, and Cornell Capa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Cecil Beaton ranks 131. Before him are Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Helen Kane, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Joseph Schmidt, and Edvard Kocbek. After him are Edgar P. Jacobs, Chen Boda, Aparicio Méndez, Robert Montgomery, Walter Heitler, and Frederick Ashton. Among people deceased in 1980, Cecil Beaton ranks 117. Before him are Rolf Nevanlinna, Justas Paleckis, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Roza Eskenazi, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, and George Raft. After him are Alfred Andersch, Arthur Melvin Okun, Pietro Nenni, Ernst Ocwirk, Manlio Brosio, and Shigemaru Takenokoshi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cecil Beaton ranks 2,040 out of 7,765. Before him are John Profumo (1915), Arthur Sullivan (1842), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777), Liam Payne (1993), and John Maynard Smith (1920). After him are Jonny Lee Miller (1972), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), F. H. Bradley (1846), Michael Powell (1905), Gordon Milne (1937), and Michael Dummett (1925).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Cecil Beaton ranks 3. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830) and Roger Fenton (1819). After him are Henry Peach Robinson (1830), David Bailey (1938), Mick Rock (1948), and Allan Warren (1948).

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