ACTOR

Girish Karnad

1938 - 2019

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Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Girish Karnad has received more than 4,093,669 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Girish Karnad is the 1,969th most popular actor (down from 1,137th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from India (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 4.1M

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  • 54.33

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Girish Karnads by language

Over the past year Girish Karnad has had the most page views in the with 400,248 views, followed by Kannada (93,541), and Hindi (19,837). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (43,900.00%), Southern Azerbaijani (97.73%), and Simple English (94.63%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Girish Karnad ranks 1,969 out of 13,578. Before him are Lilian Harvey, Christian Marquand, M. Emmet Walsh, Ciara, Jill St. John, and Blake Lively. After him are Donald Crisp, Diane Venora, Fernando Colunga, Rue McClanahan, Gastone Moschin, and Claire Lacombe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Girish Karnad ranks 184. Before him are Sjaak Swart, Götz George, Andrey Myagkov, Leon Panetta, Isabelle Aubret, and Ieronymos II of Athens. After him are Klaus Voormann, Maxim Shostakovich, Isao Inokuma, Diane Baker, Per Kirkeby, and Shashi Kapoor. Among people deceased in 2019, Girish Karnad ranks 150. Before him are Vonda N. McIntyre, Lê Đức Anh, Pim Verbeek, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Eduardo Fajardo, and Egil Danielsen. After him are George Hilton, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Ken Kercheval, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Paul Volcker, and Dick Dale.

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In India

Among people born in India, Girish Karnad ranks 325 out of 1,861. Before him are Mastani (1699), Rambhadracharya (1950), Sikandar Lodi (1450), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Bhāskara I (600), and Bahubali (null). After him are Abbé Faria (1756), Viswanathan Anand (1969), Abanindranath Tagore (1871), Tatya Tope (1814), Rajnath Singh (1951), and Birju Maharaj (1937).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Girish Karnad ranks 23. Before him are Jaya Bachchan (1948), Bhupen Hazarika (1926), Savitri (1936), Rajinikanth (1950), Nargis (1929), and Puneeth Rajkumar (1975). After him are Shashi Kapoor (1938), Kajol (1974), Vijay (1974), Rishi Kapoor (1952), Meena Kumari (1933), and Mala Sinha (1936).

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