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Ed Sullivan

1901 - 1974

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Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He was the creator and host of the television variety program Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. broadcast history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Sullivan has received more than 3,733,031 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Ed Sullivan is the 14th most popular presenter, the 2,404th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,869th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Presenter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRESENTERS

Among presenters, Ed Sullivan ranks 14 out of 143Before him are Larry King, Henry Rollins, Alex Jones, Jimmy Savile, Anna Moffo, and Christine Chubbuck. After him are Chris Wallace, Bear Grylls, Fred Rogers, Johnny Carson, Nick Vujicic, and Michael Buffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ed Sullivan ranks 97Before him are Maxwell D. Taylor, Stella Adler, George Gallup, Ramón Serrano Suñer, Ludolf von Alvensleben, and Henri Cochet. After him are Eiji Tsuburaya, Miklós Nyiszli, Marino Marini, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Peter van de Kamp, and Alexander Fadeyev. Among people deceased in 1974, Ed Sullivan ranks 67Before him are Lajos Zilahy, Junio Valerio Borghese, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Jean Wahl, Anne Sexton, and Christine Chubbuck. After him are Jan Tschichold, Bill Finger, Werner Lorenz, Samuel Goldwyn, Wolf Messing, and Ayub Khan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed Sullivan ranks 2,404 out of 20,380Before him are Nora Ephron (1941), Broncho Billy Anderson (1880), Danny Elfman (1953), Chris Evans (1981), Robert Brout (1928), and Scott McKenzie (1939). After him are Larry Fink (1952), Asa Akira (1986), Bill Duke (1943), Voltairine de Cleyre (1866), Alexander Haig (1924), and John Frusciante (1970).

Among PRESENTERS In United States

Among presenters born in United States, Ed Sullivan ranks 9Before him are Oprah Winfrey (1954), Larry King (1933), Henry Rollins (1961), Alex Jones (1974), Anna Moffo (1932), and Christine Chubbuck (1944). After him are Chris Wallace (1947), Fred Rogers (1928), Johnny Carson (1925), Michael Buffer (1944), Walter Cronkite (1916), and Bob Barker (1923).