1939 - Today
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor whose career spans six decades. He has performed in genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is the recipient of seven Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian McKellen has received more than 13,669,266 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Ian McKellen is the 45th most popular actor (up from 59th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 116th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Actor.
Ian McKellen is most famous for playing Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.
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Among actors, Ian McKellen ranks 45 out of 10,030. Before him are Charles Bronson, Michael Douglas, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Roger Moore. After him are Chuck Norris, Louis de Funès, Harrison Ford, Maggie Smith, Greta Garbo, and Christopher Lee.
1921 - 2003
HPI: 81.50
Rank: 39
1944 - Present
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 40
1913 - 1967
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 41
1915 - 1982
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 42
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 43
1927 - 2017
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 44
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 45
1940 - Present
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 46
1914 - 1983
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 47
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 48
1934 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 49
1905 - 1990
HPI: 80.99
Rank: 50
1922 - 2015
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 51
Among people born in 1939, Ian McKellen ranks 3. Before him are Terence Hill and Tina Turner. After him are Francis Ford Coppola, Ali Khamenei, Lee Harvey Oswald, Reuven Rivlin, Stanislav Petrov, Amos Oz, Harvey Keitel, Amanda Lear, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.
1939 - Present
HPI: 82.08
Rank: 1
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.82
Rank: 2
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 3
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 4
1939 - Present
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 5
1939 - 1963
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 6
1939 - Present
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 7
1939 - 2017
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 8
1939 - 2018
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 10
1939 - Present
HPI: 77.33
Rank: 11
1939 - Present
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian McKellen ranks 91 out of 6,924. Before him are George Stephenson (1781), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Emily Brontë (1818), Roger Moore (1927), David Livingstone (1813), and Walter Scott (1771). After him are William Blake (1757), Maggie Smith (1934), Mary Boleyn (1499), J. M. W. Turner (1775), Alex Ferguson (1941), and Christopher Lee (1922).
1781 - 1848
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 85
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 86
1818 - 1848
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 87
1927 - 2017
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 88
1813 - 1873
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 89
1771 - 1832
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 90
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 91
1757 - 1827
HPI: 81.15
Rank: 92
1934 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 93
1499 - 1543
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 94
1775 - 1851
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 95
1941 - Present
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 96
1922 - 2015
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 97
Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ian McKellen ranks 7. Before him are Charlie Chaplin (1889), Anthony Hopkins (1937), Sean Connery (1930), Richard Burton (1925), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), and Roger Moore (1927). After him are Maggie Smith (1934), Christopher Lee (1922), Michael Caine (1933), Alan Rickman (1946), Liam Neeson (1952), and Judi Dench (1934).
1889 - 1977
HPI: 90.72
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 84.81
Rank: 2
1930 - 2020
HPI: 84.46
Rank: 3
1925 - 1984
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 4
1932 - 2011
HPI: 82.50
Rank: 5
1927 - 2017
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 6
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 7
1934 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 8
1922 - 2015
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 9
1933 - Present
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 10
1946 - 2016
HPI: 80.54
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 79.70
Rank: 12
1934 - Present
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 13