ACTOR

Edmund Kean

1787 - 1833

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Edmund Kean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Kean has received more than 209,164 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Edmund Kean is the 1,271st most popular actor (down from 1,238th in 2019), the 1,345th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,337th in 2019) and the 176th most popular British Actor.

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  • 210k

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  • 57.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Edmund Kean ranks 1,271 out of 13,578. Before him are Patricia Clarkson, Michael Emerson, Don S. Davis, Linda Blair, Linda Evans, and Kim Hunter. After him are Kate Capshaw, Patrick Duffy, Stockard Channing, Michu Meszaros, Fredric March, and Martin Kove.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Edmund Kean ranks 15. Before him are Guillaume Henri Dufour, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, and Otto von Kotzebue. After him are Friedrich Krupp, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Delphine LaLaurie, Ludwig Uhland, and Eliza Poe. Among people deceased in 1833, Edmund Kean ranks 18. Before him are Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Pierre André Latreille, Abbas Mirza, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, and Adamantios Korais. After him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, René Louiche Desfontaines, Rahel Varnhagen, Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, and Nannette Streicher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Kean ranks 1,345 out of 8,785. Before him are James Glaisher (1809), Paul Scholes (1974), Thomas Tew (1649), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Anne Perry (1938), and Roger Fenton (1819). After him are George Atwood (1745), Edward Waring (1736), William Prout (1785), Peter Burke (1937), Gideon Mantell (1790), and Ted Hughes (1930).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Edmund Kean ranks 176. Before him are David Prowse (1935), Kate Beckinsale (1973), Marina Berti (1924), Roddy McDowall (1928), Elizabeth Hurley (1965), and Geraldine McEwan (1932). After him are Eileen Essell (1922), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Rupert Everett (1959), Jack Hawkins (1910), Guy Pearce (1967), and Steven Berkoff (1937).

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