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Dany Boon

1966 - Today

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Dany Boon (pronounced [dani bun]; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy Welcome to the Sticks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dany Boon has received more than 905,868 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Dany Boon is the 2,085th most popular actor (down from 1,800th in 2019), the 2,910th most popular biography from France (down from 2,557th in 2019) and the 158th most popular French Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dany Boons by language

Over the past year Dany Boon has had the most page views in the with 566,492 views, followed by English (130,666), and Russian (86,863). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (296.55%), Esperanto (67.35%), and Vietnamese (65.03%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dany Boon ranks 2,085 out of 13,578. Before him are Cary Elwes, Harry Andrews, Lee Hoi-chuen, Josh Hartnett, Mariska Hargitay, and Matthew Fox. After him are Chris Tucker, Franco Interlenghi, Tom Hulce, Olga Baclanova, Anna Maria Ferrero, and Kelsey Grammer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Dany Boon ranks 85. Before him are Olivier Martinez, Fernando Colunga, Alex Zanardi, Hill Harper, Cynthia Nixon, and Matthew Fox. After him are Faure Gnassingbé, Ivica Dačić, Nechirvan Barzani, Stephen Baldwin, Kiko, Princess Akishino, and Jeff Buckley.

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In France

Among people born in France, Dany Boon ranks 2,910 out of 6,770. Before him are Petrus Comestor (1100), Lupus Servatus (805), Djibril Cissé (1981), Henri Pélissier (1889), Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698), and Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850). After him are Peter Fourier (1565), Roussel de Bailleul (1100), Nicolas de Grigny (1672), Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (1320), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), and François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1558).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Dany Boon ranks 158. Before him are Mélanie Laurent (1983), Musidora (1889), Georges Descrières (1930), Andréa Ferréol (1947), Pierre Arditi (1944), and Gérard Blain (1930). After him are Daniel Gélin (1921), Jean-Pierre Marielle (1932), Pierre Barouh (1934), Marie-José Nat (1940), Étienne Decroux (1898), and Henri Vidal (1919).

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