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Dolly Parton

1946 - Today

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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman, known primarily for her decades-long career in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dolly Parton has received more than 34,372,146 page views. Her biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Dolly Parton is the 112th most popular singer (down from 89th in 2019), the 724th most popular biography from United States (down from 608th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Singer.

Dolly Parton is most famous for her singing career. She is also a songwriter, actress, author, and philanthropist.

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  • 34M

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  • 64.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Dolly Parton ranks 112 out of 3,528. Before her are Teresa Teng, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Lata Mangeshkar, Françoise Hardy, Roy Orbison, and Renata Tebaldi. After her are Domenico Modugno, Marvin Gaye, Annie Lennox, Carmen Miranda, Harry Belafonte, and Bryan Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Dolly Parton ranks 58. Before her are Lars Vilks, Talia Shire, Sally Field, Bob Beamon, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, and Jang Song-thaek. After her are Uri Geller, Bolo Yeung, Isaias Afwerki, Boris Berezovsky, Danny Glover, and Thongloun Sisoulith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dolly Parton ranks 724 out of 18,182. Before her are Maya Angelou (1928), Asaph Hall (1829), Les Paul (1915), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), Omar Bradley (1893), and Robert McNamara (1916). After her are Leon Cooper (1930), Roy Scheider (1932), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Robert Nozick (1938), and Frances Farmer (1913).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Dolly Parton ranks 41. Before her are Meat Loaf (1947), Gloria Gaynor (1947), Donna Summer (1948), Nancy Sinatra (1940), Bing Crosby (1903), and Roy Orbison (1936). After her are Marvin Gaye (1939), Harry Belafonte (1927), Jon Bon Jovi (1962), Britney Spears (1981), John Lee Hooker (1917), and Kris Kristofferson (1936).

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