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David Schwimmer

1966 - Today

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David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, director, comedian, and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While still acting in Friends, his first leading film role was in The Pallbearer (1996), followed by roles in Kissing a Fool; Six Days, Seven Nights; Apt Pupil (all 1998); and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Schwimmer has received more than 22,788,011 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). David Schwimmer is the 782nd most popular actor (up from 1,007th in 2019), the 1,412th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,820th in 2019) and the 375th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 23M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, David Schwimmer ranks 782 out of 13,578. Before him are Sacha Guitry, Rodolfo Gucci, Peter Weller, Sylva Koscina, Maud Adams, and Adrien Brody. After him are Sondra Locke, Tony Burton, Katrina Kaif, Eva Green, Stephen Chow, and Hal Holbrook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, David Schwimmer ranks 21. Before him are Halle Berry, Mikhail Mishustin, David Cameron, Alessandro Costacurta, Zoran Milanović, and Robin Wright. After him are Kentaro Miura, Julen Lopetegui, Luke Perry, Cláudio Taffarel, Erdoğan Atalay, and Sinéad O'Connor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Schwimmer ranks 1,412 out of 20,380. Before him are G. Stanley Hall (1846), Alan Bean (1932), Dan Simmons (1948), Adrien Brody (1973), Charles G. Dawes (1865), and Ida Tarbell (1857). After him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), John Cena (1977), Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Sondra Locke (1944), and Douglas McGregor (1906).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, David Schwimmer ranks 375. Before him are David Duchovny (1960), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), Dirk Benedict (1945), Peter Weller (1947), and Adrien Brody (1973). After him are Sondra Locke (1944), Tony Burton (1937), Hal Holbrook (1925), Ron Howard (1954), Harold Perrineau (1963), and Rene Russo (1954).

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