FILM DIRECTOR

George Lucas

1944 - Today

George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, and Industrial Light & Magic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Lucas has received more than 10,731,592 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 28th most popular film director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 99

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, George Lucas ranks 28 out of 1,305. Before him are Georges Méliès, Pedro Almodóvar, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Fritz Lang. After him are John Ford, Agnès Varda, Quentin Tarantino, Franco Zeffirelli, David Lynch, and Andrzej Wajda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, George Lucas ranks 5. Before him are Michael Douglas, Ban Ki-moon, Rutger Hauer, and Gerhard Schröder. After him are Jeff Beck, Omar al-Bashir, Barry White, Reinhold Messner, Joe Cocker, Miloš Zeman, and Jimmy Page.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Lucas ranks 189 out of 12,171. Before him are Miles Davis (1926), Charlton Heston (1923), Philip K. Dick (1928), Henry Miller (1891), George S. Patton (1885), and Orson Welles (1915). After him are John Cage (1912), Doris Day (1922), John Williams (1932), B. F. Skinner (1904), Edwin McMillan (1907), and Charles Sanders Peirce (1839).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, George Lucas ranks 6. Before him are Steven Spielberg (1946), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Woody Allen (1935), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), and Martin Scorsese (1942). After him are John Ford (1894), Quentin Tarantino (1963), David Lynch (1946), Tim Burton (1958), Sydney Pollack (1934), and Brian De Palma (1940).

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