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Christine Keeler

1942 - 2017

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Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became sexually involved with a married Cabinet minister, John Profumo, as well as with a Soviet naval attaché, Yevgeny Ivanov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christine Keeler has received more than 6,366,185 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Christine Keeler is the 66th most popular celebrity, the 1,844th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,978th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Celebrity.

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  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Christine Keeler ranks 66 out of 265Before her are Nicolas Chopin, Lizzie Borden, Annie Oakley, Edie Sedgwick, Dan Inosanto, and Florence Owens Thompson. After her are Roy Sullivan, Victor Kugler, Natascha Kampusch, Wil van Gogh, Daisy, Princess of Pless, and Denise Perrier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Christine Keeler ranks 221Before her are Curtis Mayfield, Heidi Brühl, Takao Nishiyama, Gabriele Veneziano, Oliviero Toscani, and Sandra Dee. After her are Eliso Virsaladze, Chris Sarandon, Marco Rota, Brian Kernighan, Marta Kubišová, and Günter Wallraff. Among people deceased in 2017, Christine Keeler ranks 166Before her are Viktor Gorbatko, Maryam Mirzakhani, Predrag Matvejević, Raymond Smullyan, John Wetton, and Miloslav Vlk. After her are Dionigi Tettamanzi, Angry Grandpa, Igor Volk, Roger Walkowiak, Vito Acconci, and Gastone Moschin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christine Keeler ranks 1,844 out of 8,785Before her are Peter Shaffer (1926), Tony Sheridan (1940), Jasper Tudor (1431), Ernest Jones (1879), John Ball (1338), and James Braid (1795). After her are Rick Wakeman (1949), William Boyce (1711), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Louis Harold Gray (1905), Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831), and Michael Apted (1941).

Among CELEBRITIES In United Kingdom

Among celebrities born in United Kingdom, Christine Keeler ranks 6Before her are Millvina Dean (1912), Joseph Merrick (1862), Albert Pierrepoint (1905), Mary Mallon (1869), and Alice Keppel (1868). After her are Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873), Mary Ann Bevan (1874), Jane Morris (1839), Louise Brown (1978), Domino Harvey (1969), and Rosemarie Frankland (1943).