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Dorothea Jordan

1761 - 1816

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Dorothea Jordan (née Bland; 22 November 1761 – 5 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV), and the mother of 10 illegitimate children by him, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea Jordan has received more than 830,965 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dorothea Jordan is the 3,826th most popular actor (down from 3,761st in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 183rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Irish Actor.

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  • 19

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  • 2.39

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  • 3.23

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dorothea Jordan ranks 3,826 out of 9,996Before her are Gilbert Gottfried, Colleen Camp, Steve Marriott, Wojciech Bogusławski, Doug Hutchison, and Marni Nixon. After her are Rinko Kikuchi, Laura Cardoso, Tim Blake Nelson, Shannon Elizabeth, Francis Blanche, and Amanda Righetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Dorothea Jordan ranks 32Before her are Pierre Gaveaux, Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, Pedro Caro, 3rd Marquis of la Romana, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, John Moore, and Marie-Gabrielle Capet. After her are Ludwig Abeille, Jacob Hübner, Henry Shrapnel, August Batsch, Richard Anthony Salisbury, and Samuel Dexter. Among people deceased in 1816, Dorothea Jordan ranks 24Before her are Constantine Ypsilantis, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Edward Charles Howard, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood. After her are Christian Konrad Sprengel, Hipólito Ruiz López, Samuel Dexter, Gouverneur Morris, and James McHenry.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Dorothea Jordan ranks 180 out of 501Before her are Seán O'Casey (1880), Finnian of Clonard (470), Domhnall Gleeson (1983), Maeve Binchy (1939), Richard Todd (1919), and Aidan of Lindisfarne (600). After her are Robert Mallet (1810), William Thompson (1775), Andrew Scott (1976), Herbert Brenon (1880), Yvonne Farrell (1951), and Jane Wilde (1821).

Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Dorothea Jordan ranks 28Before her are Tom Moore (1883), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Jason O'Mara (1972), Domhnall Gleeson (1983), and Richard Todd (1919). After her are Andrew Scott (1976), Michael McElhatton (1963), Patrick Bergin (1951), Alison Doody (1966), Caitriona Balfe (1979), and Katie McGrath (1983).

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