ACTOR

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 partner 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 888,660 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Dorothea Jordan is the 3,396th most popular actor (up from 3,820th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 179th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Irish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dorothea Jordan ranks 3,396 out of 13,578. Before her are David Patrick Kelly, Giorgia Moll, Danai Gurira, Robert Picardo, Theodore Bikel, and Bradford Dillman. After her are Ali Larter, Billy Burke, Kevin Pollak, Gregg Henry, Dann Florek, and Janet McTeer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Dorothea Jordan ranks 30. Before her are Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Antonín Vranický, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, William Gregor, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, and Blasius Merrem. After her are Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Henry Shrapnel, Jacob Hübner, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Ludwig Abeille, and Samuel Dexter. Among people deceased in 1816, Dorothea Jordan ranks 24. Before her are Constantine Ypsilantis, Julie Billiart, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood. After her are Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Dorothea Viehmann, Christian Konrad Sprengel, Edward Charles Howard, and Samuel Dexter.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Dorothea Jordan ranks 163 out of 549. Before her are Herbert Brenon (1880), William Orpen (1878), John de Robeck (1862), George Browne (1698), Mary Harris Jones (1837), and John Ellis (1710). After her are Veronica Guerin (1958), George Allman (1812), Ronan Keating (1977), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Violet Gibson (1876), and Sinéad Cusack (1948).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Dorothea Jordan ranks 22. Before her are Fiona Shaw (1958), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Colm Meaney (1953), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), Aidan Gillen (1968), and Barry Fitzgerald (1888). After her are Ronan Keating (1977), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Jason O'Mara (1972), Tom Moore (1883), and Patrick Bergin (1951).

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