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Henry Irving

1838 - 1905

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Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Irving has received more than 734,462 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Henry Irving is the 2,480th most popular actor (up from 3,080th in 2019), the 2,249th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,666th in 2019) and the 305th most popular British Actor.

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  • 730k

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  • 59.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Henry Irving ranks 2,480 out of 13,578. Before him are John Garfield, Leslie Jones, Muse Watson, Úrsula Corberó, Kathleen Freeman, and Reginald VelJohnson. After him are Hope Lange, Carol Potter, Bai Ling, Anthony Franciosa, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, and Anita Berber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Henry Irving ranks 61. Before him are Jules Dalou, Paolo Boselli, Szymon Winawer, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, August Šenoa, and Karl Weyprecht. After him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Siegfried Bing, Emil Rathenau, Thomas Blake Glover, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, and Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi. Among people deceased in 1905, Henry Irving ranks 49. Before him are Jean-Jacques Henner, Amalie Skram, Julius Oppert, Franz Overbeck, Máximo Gómez, and John Rogan. After him are Siegfried Bing, Debendranath Tagore, Henrik Sjöberg, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Konstantin Savitsky, and Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Irving ranks 2,249 out of 8,785. Before him are Ethel Muckelt (1885), James Harrington (1611), Mick Box (1947), William Ernest Henley (1849), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), and Dion Fortune (1890). After him are Jojo Moyes (1969), Rio Ferdinand (1978), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), Carl Palmer (1950), Limahl (1958), and Ken Robinson (1950).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Henry Irving ranks 305. Before him are William Hartnell (1908), Joseph Fiennes (1970), Mark Williams (1959), Rufus Sewell (1967), Michelle Fairley (1964), and Siân Phillips (1933). After him are Mark Rylance (1960), Gloria Holden (1903), Olivia Williams (1968), Lulu (1948), Emerald Fennell (1985), and Leo G. Carroll (1886).

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