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Ken Shimura

1950 - 2020

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Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori, February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020), known professionally as Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken), was a Japanese comedian. He was born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. He started his career as an assistant to the comedy band The Drifters, led by Chōsuke Ikariya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Shimura has received more than 532,371 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ken Shimura is the 30th most popular comedian (up from 188th in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from Japan (down from 186th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Comedian.

Ken Shimura is most famous for his work on the manga series "Urusei Yatsura" which ran from 1978 to 1987.

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  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMEDIANS

Among comedians, Ken Shimura ranks 30 out of 91Before him are Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Melissa McCarthy, Don Rickles, John Ritter, and Zach Galifianakis. After him are Bernie Mac, Mary Tyler Moore, Ronald Golias, Jackie Gleason, Kevin Hart, and Lenny Bruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ken Shimura ranks 143Before him are Loredana Bertè, Arthur D. Levinson, Nicholas Hammond, Boris Gryzlov, Andrzej Szarmach, and Yang Jiechi. After him are Princess Elena of Romania, Bertrand Delanoë, Natsagiin Bagabandi, Krzysztof Wielicki, Mary Hopkin, and Ken Robinson. Among people deceased in 2020, Ken Shimura ranks 178Before him are Claude Bolling, Hans Tilkowski, Gigi Proietti, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Orson Bean, and Pierre Buyoya. After him are Shere Hite, Vittorio Gregotti, Stanisław Kania, Flavio Cotti, Jack Charlton, and John Hume.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Shimura ranks 746 out of 6,048Before him are Takako Shimazu (1939), Rihei Sano (1912), Ariwara no Narihira (825), Katō Tomosaburō (1861), Matsudaira Katamori (1836), and Taisen Deshimaru (1914). After him are Kōichi Kido (1889), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Reizo Fukuhara (1931), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), and Mamoru Hosoda (1967).

Among COMEDIANS In Japan

Among comedians born in Japan, Ken Shimura ranks 1

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