1914 - 2000
Hedy Lamarr (; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born Austro-Hungarian-American film actress and inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's golden age.After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hedy Lamarr has received more than 17,457,535 page views. Her biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Hedy Lamarr is the 79th most popular actor (up from 96th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Austria (up from 63rd 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 79 out of 9,996. Before her are Michael Caine, Steve McQueen, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Paul Newman, and Humphrey Bogart. After her are Robert Redford, Toshiro Mifune, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Gregory Peck, and Ava Gardner.
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 73
1930 - 1980
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 74
1968 - Present
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 75
1963 - Present
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 76
1925 - 2008
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 77
1899 - 1957
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 78
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 79
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 80
1920 - 1997
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 81
1956 - Present
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 82
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 83
1916 - 2003
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 84
1922 - 1990
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 85
Among people born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr ranks 5. Before her are Louis de Funès, Yuri Andropov, Tove Jansson, and Thor Heyerdahl. After her are Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Aribert Heim, and Alec Guinness. Among people deceased in 2000, Hedy Lamarr ranks 2. Before her is Hafez al-Assad. After her are Władysław Szpilman, Ingrid of Sweden, Habib Bourguiba, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Emil Zátopek, Roger Vadim, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Lída Baarová.
1914 - 1983
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 1
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 2
1914 - 2001
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 3
1914 - 2002
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 4
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 5
1914 - 2007
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 6
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 7
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 8
1914 - 1991
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 9
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 11
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 12
1930 - 2000
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 1
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 2
1911 - 2000
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 3
1910 - 2000
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 4
1903 - 2000
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 5
1909 - 2000
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 6
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 7
1922 - 2000
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 8
1928 - 2000
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 9
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 10
1928 - 2000
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 11
1914 - 2000
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 12
Among people born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 50 out of 1,237. Before her are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Lise Meitner (1878), Otto von Habsburg (1912), Klara Hitler (1860), and Alois Hitler (1837). After her are Otto Skorzeny (1908), Kurt Gödel (1906), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903).
1678 - 1711
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 44
1415 - 1493
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 45
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 46
1912 - 2011
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 47
1860 - 1907
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 48
1837 - 1903
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 49
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 50
1908 - 1975
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 51
1906 - 1978
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 52
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 53
1802 - 1878
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 54
1844 - 1906
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 55
1903 - 1946
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 56
Among actors born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 3. Before her are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) and Romy Schneider (1938). After her are Christoph Waltz (1956), Maximilian Schell (1930), Helmut Berger (1944), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), Maria Schell (1926), Katharina Schratt (1853), Oskar Werner (1922), Lotte Lenya (1898), and Senta Berger (1941).
1947 - Present
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 1
1938 - 1982
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 2
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 3
1956 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 4
1930 - 2014
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 5
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 6
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 7
1926 - 2005
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 8
1853 - 1940
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 9
1922 - 1984
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 10
1898 - 1981
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 12