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Fred Karno

1866 - 1941

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Frederick John Westcott (26 March 1865 – 17 September 1941), best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was an English theatre impresario of the British music hall. As a comedian of slapstick he is credited with popularising the custard-pie-in-the-face gag. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Karno has received more than 424,452 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fred Karno is the 441st most popular businessperson (up from 501st in 2019), the 2,986th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,829th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Fred Karno ranks 441 out of 847. Before him are N. R. Narayana Murthy, Elisabeth Abegg, James Buchanan Duke, J. R. D. Tata, Muhtar Kent, and Pierre Veyron. After him are Michael Dell, Rina Zaripova, Henry Clay Frick, Alan Lomax, Eduardo Saverin, and Robert Durst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Fred Karno ranks 111. Before him are Ernest Starling, Adolf Meyer, Carl Theodor Zahle, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, George Coșbuc, and Euclides da Cunha. After him are Richard Beer-Hofmann, Georges de la Falaise, Pencho Slaveykov, Ludwig Aschoff, Harry Davenport, and Gilbert Bougnol. Among people deceased in 1941, Fred Karno ranks 146. Before him are Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, Chris Watson, Paul von Hintze, Lev Dovator, and Štefan Banič. After him are Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Fritz Noether, Penelope Delta, Ibrahim Tuqan, Tom Phillips, and Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fred Karno ranks 2,986 out of 8,785. Before him are James Francis Stephens (1792), Hermione Baddeley (1906), Mark Sheppard (1964), John Peel (1939), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), and Anthony Carlisle (1768). After him are Hubert Parry (1848), Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Pat Jennings (1945), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Ray Lankester (1847), and Sidney Robinson (1876).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Fred Karno ranks 29. Before him are Ken Aston (1915), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Edward Colston (1636), Jim Marshall (1923), Jim Ratcliffe (1952), and Angus Ogilvy (1928). After him are Neil Aspinall (1941), Andrew Planche (1727), John Houlding (1833), John Henry Davies (1864), Ian Livingstone (1949), and Christopher O'Neill (1974).

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