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Gunnar Hansen

1947 - 2015

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Gunnar Milton Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015) was an American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunnar Hansen has received more than 1,384,198 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Hansen is the 2,573rd most popular actor (up from 2,910th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Iceland (up from 40th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Icelander Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gunnar Hansen ranks 2,573 out of 9,996. Before him are Kevin McNally, Richard Tauber, Alice Krige, Pamela Sue Martin, Tsai Chin, and Vlastimil Brodský. After him are Ferdinand Raimund, Angela Winkler, Patrick Magee, Frank Morgan, Jim Davis, and Goran Višnjić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gunnar Hansen ranks 265. Before him are Sammy Hagar, Marcello Semeraro, Jennifer Warnes, Stéphane Courtois, Hitoshi Igarashi, and Ann Hui. After him are Stefan Persson, Bogdan Tanjević, Pauline Moran, Fernando Savater, Steven Holl, and Mary Simon. Among people deceased in 2015, Gunnar Hansen ranks 165. Before him are Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Patachou, Dick Nanninga, Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Richard Anthony, and Giovanni Canestri. After him are Hyon Yong-chol, Esther Brand, Gerald Götting, Hans Erni, Johanna Quandt, and Elizabeth Wilson.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Gunnar Hansen ranks 28 out of 180. Before him are Halldór Ásgrímsson (1947), Bjarni Benediktsson (1908), Thorvald Eiriksson (972), Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975), Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807), and Jón Ögmundsson (1052). After him are Geir Haarde (1951), Friðrik Ólafsson (1935), Matthías Jochumsson (1835), Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885), Sturla Þórðarson (1214), and Jón Leifs (1899).

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Among ACTORS In Iceland

Among actors born in Iceland, Gunnar Hansen ranks 2. Before him are Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975). After him are Jón Gnarr (1967), Hera Hilmar (1988), Tómas Lemarquis (1977), Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (1963), Anita Briem (1982), Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (1988), and Heida Reed (1988).

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