ACTOR

Kumail Nanjiani

1978 - Today

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Kumail Ali Nanjiani (; Sindhi: ڪميل علي نانجياڻي‎; Urdu: کمیل علی نانجیانی; born May 2, 1978) is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). For co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kumail Nanjiani has received more than 13,973,532 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kumail Nanjiani is the 2,418th most popular actor (down from 1,250th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 28th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Pakistani Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kumail Nanjiani ranks 2,418 out of 13,578. Before him are Joe Morton, Catherine Schell, David Janssen, Michael Berryman, William Hartnell, and Geraldine Farrar. After him are Aracy Balabanian, Tia Carrere, Michael Winslow, Shannon Lee, Gloria Foster, and Antonio Moreno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Kumail Nanjiani ranks 39. Before him are Shunsuke Nakamura, Katherine Heigl, Walter Samuel, Nelly Furtado, Stana Katic, and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco. After him are Daniel Van Buyten, Sandra Hüller, Rio Ferdinand, Joan Capdevila, Ha Ji-won, and Gabriel Heinze.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Kumail Nanjiani ranks 51 out of 217. Before him are Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Lokaksema (147), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), Tariq Ali (1943), and Taxiles (-400). After him are I. K. Gujral (1919), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Sunil Dutt (1929), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), and Milkha Singh (1935).

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Among ACTORS In Pakistan

Among actors born in Pakistan, Kumail Nanjiani ranks 5. Before him are Dev Anand (1923), Kabir Bedi (1946), Pran (1920), and Dilip Kumar (1922). After him are Sunil Dutt (1929), Manoj Kumar (1937), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Vinod Khanna (1946), Raaj Kumar (1926), Art Malik (1952), and Balraj Sahni (1913).

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