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Lily Pons

1898 - 1976

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Alice Joséphine Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976), known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic lyric coloratura soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer, she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Lakmé and Lucia di Lammermoor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lily Pons has received more than 489,291 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Lily Pons is the 3,964th most popular actor (down from 2,260th in 2019), the 3,924th most popular biography from France (down from 2,926th in 2019) and the 248th most popular French Actor.

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  • 490k

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  • 47.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lily Pons ranks 3,964 out of 9,996Before her are Madhuri Dixit, Dominic Cooper, Nina Hoss, George Bancroft, Debra Messing, and CCH Pounder. After her are Jim Cummings, Jack Benny, Yoko Shimada, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Harold Gould, and Héctor Alterio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Lily Pons ranks 179Before her are Roald Larsen, Hal B. Wallis, Georgy Langemak, Ben Shahn, Allen Woodring, and Norman Vincent Peale. After her are Rosa Chacel, William Astbury, Blind Willie McTell, Zhu Ziqing, Preston Sturges, and Leonard Howell. Among people deceased in 1976, Lily Pons ranks 162Before her are Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Florence Ballard, Humberto Elgueta, Murtala Mohammed, Mal Evans, and Ernst Albrecht. After her are Victor Varconi, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Zofia Stryjeńska, John C. Slater, Jens Bjørneboe, and Edith Evans.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lily Pons ranks 3,924 out of 6,011Before her are François Marty (1904), Maxime Bossis (1955), José Bové (1953), Philippe Kahn (1952), Gaston Waringhien (1901), and Jacques Higelin (1940). After her are Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Jacques Ochs (1883), Michel Colombier (1939), Jean Poiret (1926), Régis Wargnier (1948), and Catherine Cesarsky (1943).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Lily Pons ranks 248Before her are Frédéric Diefenthal (1968), René Navarre (1877), Julie Dreyfus (1966), Francis Blanche (1921), Viviane Romance (1912), and Marie-Anne Chazel (1951). After her are Jean Poiret (1926), Dominique Blanc (1956), Jean Vilar (1912), Hippolyte Girardot (1955), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (1953), and Jean Richard (1921).

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