ACTOR

Hannah Chaplin

1865 - 1928

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Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Chaplin (née Hill; 6 August 1865 – 28 August 1928), also known by the stage name Lily Harley, was an English actress, singer and dancer who performed in British music halls from the age of 16. Chaplin was the mother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and his two half-brothers, the actor Sydney Chaplin and the film director Wheeler Dryden, and grandmother of Jefferson Airplane drummer and songwriter Spencer Dryden. As a result of mental illness, now thought to have been caused by syphilis, she was unable to continue performing from the mid-1890s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hannah Chaplin has received more than 901,983 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hannah Chaplin is the 1,318th most popular actor (up from 1,543rd in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,593rd in 2019) and the 183rd most popular British Actor.

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  • 56.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hannah Chaplin ranks 1,318 out of 13,578Before her are Dragan Nikolić, Olga Chekhova, Marg Helgenberger, Barbara Sukowa, Lorraine Bracco, and Pat Hingle. After her are Peter Mayhew, Matt Dillon, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Anny Ondra, Victor McLaglen, and Stella Adler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Hannah Chaplin ranks 55Before her are Charles Bally, Edith Cavell, Wilbur Scoville, Sabino Arana, Jovan Cvijić, and Shigechiyo Izumi. After her are Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Andrey Sheptytsky, Lucjan Żeligowski, Bronisława Dłuska, Anandi Gopal Joshi, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1928, Hannah Chaplin ranks 42Before her are Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, Ebenezer Howard, Hideyo Noguchi, Pavel Axelrod, Alvin Kraenzlein, and Edward Walter Maunder. After her are Léon Duguit, José Sánchez del Río, Eglantyne Jebb, Adolphe Appia, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, and Otto Nordenskjöld.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hannah Chaplin ranks 1,387 out of 8,785Before her are John Newton (1725), Williamina Fleming (1857), John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), Beau Brummell (1778), Peter Mansfield (1933), and John Bowring (1792). After her are Peter Mayhew (1944), Adrian Newey (1958), Vidal Sassoon (1928), Victor McLaglen (1886), Pattie Boyd (1944), and Edward Frankland (1825).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Hannah Chaplin ranks 183Before her are Eileen Essell (1922), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Rupert Everett (1959), Jack Hawkins (1910), Guy Pearce (1967), and Steven Berkoff (1937). After her are Peter Mayhew (1944), Victor McLaglen (1886), Vinnie Jones (1965), Michael Redgrave (1908), Timothy Spall (1957), and Julia Ormond (1965).