ACTOR

Dhanush

1983 - Today

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Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja (born 28 July 1983), known professionally as Dhanush, is an Indian actor, producer, director, lyricist and playback singer who primarily works in Tamil cinema. Having starred in 46 films over his career, his accolades include four National Film Awards (two as actor and two as producer), fourteen SIIMA Awards, seven Filmfare Awards South and a Filmfare Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dhanush has received more than 18,562,054 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Dhanush is the 11,578th most popular actor (down from 10,741st in 2019), the 1,298th most popular biography from India (down from 1,107th in 2019) and the 312th most popular Indian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 19M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 32.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dhanushes by language

Over the past year Dhanush has had the most page views in the with 2,309,089 views, followed by Tamil (28,317), and Hindi (28,315). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (386.70%), Uzbek (88.31%), and Maithili (44.59%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dhanush ranks 11,578 out of 13,578. Before him are Song Jae-rim, Georgina Amorós, Jon Heder, Drew Van Acker, Julie Warner, and Faith Prince. After him are Caleb McLaughlin, Artie Lange, Ennis Esmer, Carolina Gaitán, Patricia Conde, and Gaius Charles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Dhanush ranks 660. Before him are Trisha, Mika Kikuchi, Viktor Pečovský, Étienne Bacrot, Cristian Baroni, and Timothy Bradley. After him are Gaius Charles, Marc Burns, Julia Vakulenko, Milan Stepanov, Leandro Fernández, and Aldo de Nigris.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dhanush ranks 1,298 out of 1,861. Before him are Bina Agarwal (1951), Jyothika (1977), Trisha (1983), Anupama Parameswaran (1996), Soha Ali Khan (1978), and J. P. Dutta (1949). After him are Kiara Advani (1992), Amruta Subhash (1979), Namrata Shirodkar (1972), Rashid Khan (1968), Revathi (1966), and Radha (1965).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Dhanush ranks 312. Before him are Zarina Wahab (1959), Saurabh Shukla (1963), Jyothika (1977), Trisha (1983), Anupama Parameswaran (1996), and Soha Ali Khan (1978). After him are Kiara Advani (1992), Amruta Subhash (1979), Revathi (1966), Radha (1965), Dilip Joshi (1968), and Amala Akkineni (1967).

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