ACTOR

LeVar Burton

1957 - Today

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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of LeVar Burton has received more than 8,000,145 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). LeVar Burton is the 4,843rd most popular actor (down from 4,758th in 2019), the 4,711th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,247th in 2019) and the 175th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, LeVar Burton ranks 4,843 out of 13,578. Before him are Marília Pêra, Preity Zinta, Ulrich Matthes, Greg Germann, Lya Mara, and Haley Joel Osment. After him are Terry Bradshaw, Curly Howard, Kathy Burke, Jessalyn Gilsig, Krysten Ritter, and Curt Lowens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, LeVar Burton ranks 289. Before him are Evangelos Venizelos, Peter Englund, Ingrid Auerswald, Kevin McHale, Alexandra Marinina, and Mario Van Peebles. After him are Vinny Appice, Nancy Cartwright, Mario Grech, Shlomo Mintz, Masaru Uchiyama, and Roberto Azevêdo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, LeVar Burton ranks 4,711 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Krämer (1940), Johann Faulhaber (1580), René Kollo (1937), Ulrich Matthes (1959), Uta Ranke-Heinemann (1927), and Annemarie Heinrich (1912). After him are Erik Ode (1910), Alfred Kelbassa (1925), Annegret Richter (1950), Theodor Blank (1905), Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen (1794), and Kristin Otto (1966).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, LeVar Burton ranks 175. Before him are Gisela Uhlen (1919), Jeri Ryan (1968), Reinhold Schünzel (1886), Ossi Oswalda (1897), Peter Gilmore (1931), and Ulrich Matthes (1959). After him are André Hennicke (1958), Hanns Kräly (1884), Werner Peters (1918), Hannelore Schroth (1922), Katja Riemann (1963), and Carl Ebert (1887).

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