1914 - 2000
Hedy Lamarr (, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November or 9 September 1914 – 19 January 2000), was an American actress, inventor, and film producer. She appeared in 30 films over a 28-year career, and co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication for torpedo guidance.Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and acted in a number of Austrian, German, and Czech films in her brief early film career, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933). In 1937, she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, secretly moving to Paris and then on to London. There she met Louis B. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hedy Lamarr has received more than 12,812,653 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Hedy Lamarr is the 97th most popular actor (down from 96th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 64th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Actor.
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. She is most famous for her role in the film "Ecstasy" and for inventing a frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedoes.
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Among actors, Hedy Lamarr ranks 97 out of 10,030. Before her are Charlton Heston, Gloria Stuart, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Sutherland, Johnny Depp, and Rowan Atkinson. After her are Tom Cruise, Orson Welles, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Cary Grant, and Richard Gere.
1923 - 2008
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 91
1910 - 2010
HPI: 78.65
Rank: 92
1899 - 1957
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 93
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 94
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.49
Rank: 95
1955 - Present
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 96
1914 - 2000
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 97
1962 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 98
1915 - 1985
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 99
1954 - Present
HPI: 78.32
Rank: 100
1948 - Present
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 101
1904 - 1986
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 102
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 103
Among people born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr ranks 5. Before her are Yuri Andropov, Louis de Funès, Thor Heyerdahl, and Tove Jansson. After her are Marguerite Duras, Tenzing Norgay, Romain Gary, Michael Wittmann, Jiang Qing, Julio Cortázar, and William S. Burroughs. Among people deceased in 2000, Hedy Lamarr ranks 2. Before her is Hafez al-Assad. After her are Władysław Szpilman, Ingrid of Sweden, Emil Zátopek, Habib Bourguiba, Roger Vadim, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Alec Guinness, Lída Baarová, Carl Barks, and Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1914 - 1984
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 1
1914 - 1983
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 2
1914 - 2002
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 3
1914 - 2001
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 4
1914 - 2000
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 5
1914 - 1996
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 6
1914 - 1986
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 7
1914 - 1980
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 8
1914 - 1944
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 9
1914 - 1991
HPI: 76.39
Rank: 10
1914 - 1984
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 11
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 12
1930 - 2000
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 1
1914 - 2000
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 2
1911 - 2000
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 3
1910 - 2000
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 4
1922 - 2000
HPI: 76.81
Rank: 5
1903 - 2000
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 6
1928 - 2000
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 7
1928 - 2000
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 8
1914 - 2000
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 9
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 10
1901 - 2000
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 11
1916 - 2000
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 12
Among people born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 63 out of 1,075. Before her are Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Otto von Habsburg (1912), Martin Buber (1878), Anton Webern (1883), Christian Doppler (1803), and Alois Hitler (1837). After her are Robert Musil (1880), Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527), Alban Berg (1885), Billy Wilder (1906), Kurt Waldheim (1918), and Maria Carolina of Austria (1752).
1903 - 1946
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 57
1912 - 2011
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 58
1878 - 1965
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 59
1883 - 1945
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 60
1803 - 1853
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 61
1837 - 1903
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 62
1914 - 2000
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 63
1880 - 1942
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 64
1527 - 1576
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 65
1885 - 1935
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 66
1906 - 2002
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 67
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 68
1752 - 1814
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 69
Among actors born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 3. Before her are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) and Romy Schneider (1938). After her are Maximilian Schell (1930), Christoph Waltz (1956), Helmut Berger (1944), Maria Schell (1926), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), Oskar Werner (1922), Katharina Schratt (1853), Lotte Lenya (1898), and Senta Berger (1941).
1947 - Present
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 1
1938 - 1982
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 2
1914 - 2000
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 3
1930 - 2014
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 4
1956 - Present
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 5
1944 - Present
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 6
1926 - 2005
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 8
1922 - 1984
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 9
1853 - 1940
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 10
1898 - 1981
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 12