ACTOR

Kenny Baker

1934 - 2016

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Kenneth George Baker (24 August 1934 – 13 August 2016) was an English actor, comedian and musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenny Baker has received more than 87,903 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kenny Baker is the 933rd most popular actor (up from 975th in 2019), the 1,037th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,102nd in 2019) and the 135th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kenny Bakers by language

Over the past year Kenny Baker has had the most page views in the with 31,122 views, followed by Spanish (19,819), and Italian (17,691). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (57.37%), Asturian (54.04%), and Simple English (38.35%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kenny Baker ranks 933 out of 13,578. Before him are Vincent D'Onofrio, Jennifer Grey, Vera Miles, Max Schreck, John Turturro, and Sebastian Shaw. After him are Cesar Romero, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jesper Christensen, Olga Knipper, Josephine Chaplin, and Michelle Rodriguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Kenny Baker ranks 86. Before him are Georges Wolinski, Pratibha Patil, Leonid Rogozov, Marty Feldman, Ingvar Carlsson, and Pedro Pires. After him are Per Olov Enquist, Anton Geesink, Armi Kuusela, Yasuo Takamori, Robert Moog, and Yoshio Furukawa. Among people deceased in 2016, Kenny Baker ranks 88. Before him are Claude Gensac, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Michal Kováč, Chris Amon, Edgar Mitchell, and Bata Živojinović. After him are Meir Dagan, Yasuo Takamori, David Hamilton, Seymour Papert, André Courrèges, and Maria Teresa de Filippis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kenny Baker ranks 1,037 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Palin (1943), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Henry Tingle Wilde (1872), John Balliol (1249), and Sebastian Shaw (1905). After him are James Murray (1837), Princess Marie of Orléans (1865), Simon Pegg (1970), A. J. Ayer (1910), Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), and James Stirling (1926).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Kenny Baker ranks 135. Before him are Jill Ireland (1936), James Mason (1909), David Warner (1941), Jeremy Brett (1933), Michael Palin (1943), and Sebastian Shaw (1905). After him are John Nettles (1943), Stephen Boyd (1931), Frank Oz (1944), Sacha Baron Cohen (1971), Dirk Bogarde (1921), and Honor Blackman (1925).

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