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Edith Head

1897 - 1981

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Edith Claire Head (née Posenor, October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history. Head is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential costume designers in film history. Born and raised in California, Head started her career as a Spanish teacher, but was interested in design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Head has received more than 2,003,239 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Head is the 9,138th most popular politician (down from 6,297th in 2019), the 3,288th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,203rd in 2019) and the 208th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edith Head ranks 9,138 out of 15,577. Before her are Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Martin Rees, Eurycratides, Charles Rogier, and Sebastiano Ziani. After her are Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Urbano Rattazzi, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Victor, Antonio Maura, and Gustave Garrigou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Edith Head ranks 132. Before her are Štefan Tiso, Richard Hildebrandt, August Heissmeyer, Tan Malaka, Gaspar Cassadó, and Ram Prasad Bismil. After her are Marian Anderson, Xu Zhimo, Horace McCoy, Traicho Kostov, Lazare Ponticelli, and Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Among people deceased in 1981, Edith Head ranks 85. Before her are Carl Ludwig Siegel, Hermann Esser, Rensis Likert, Franjo Šeper, Nargis, and Glauber Rocha. After her are Bobby Sands, Ricardo Wolf, Alexander Kotov, Claude Auchinleck, Jerzy Neyman, and Edvard Kocbek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Head ranks 3,288 out of 18,182. Before her are Joan Cusack (1962), Wayne Knight (1955), Jo Van Fleet (1915), Kevin Peter Hall (1955), Budd Schulberg (1914), and Raymond Leo Burke (1948). After her are "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), Ron Rifkin (1939), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Kevin James (1965), The Miz (1980), and Heber Doust Curtis (1872).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Edith Head ranks 208. Before her are James Forrestal (1892), William A. Wheeler (1819), Kamehameha IV (1834), George M. Dallas (1792), Jay Rockefeller (1937), and Maurice Hilleman (1919). After her are Garret Hobart (1844), Virginia Hall (1906), Charles J. Guiteau (1841), Lynne Cheney (1941), Bill Nelson (1942), and Leon Panetta (1938).

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