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Edward Alleyn

1566 - 1626

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Edward "Ned" Alleyn (; 1 September 1566 – 21 November 1626) was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Alleyn has received more than 270,546 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edward Alleyn is the 5,269th most popular actor (down from 3,644th in 2019), the 4,029th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,089th in 2019) and the 644th most popular British Actor.

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  • 270k

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  • 44.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Edward Alleyn ranks 5,269 out of 9,996Before him are Mary Carlisle, Robert Newton, Wendell Corey, Hikaru Midorikawa, Kelly Rowan, and Richard Lewis. After him are Harvey Fierstein, Howard Hesseman, Deanie Ip, Park Hae-soo, Abhishek Bachchan, and Kelly Slater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1566, Edward Alleyn ranks 19Before him are Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Charles, Count of Soissons, Joachim Wtewael, Francesco Contarini, Francesco Erizzo, and John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach.  Among people deceased in 1626, Edward Alleyn ranks 21Before him are Marino Ghetaldi, Odoardo Farnese, Salomon de Brosse, John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Edmund Gunter, and Malik Ambar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Alleyn ranks 4,029 out of 7,765Before him are Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880), Thomas Campion (1567), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), Kenneth Clark (1903), Robert Newton (1905), and Martin McGuinness (1950). After him are Ramón Zabalo (1910), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), Guy Butler (1899), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Tommy Cooper (1921), and Alan Woods (1944).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Edward Alleyn ranks 644Before him are John Loder (1898), Carole Shelley (1939), Juliet Mills (1941), Scott Speedman (1975), H. B. Warner (1876), and Robert Newton (1905). After him are Tommy Cooper (1921), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (1957), Ian McElhinney (1948), James D'Arcy (1975), Celia Johnson (1908), and Alec B. Francis (1867).

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