1898 - 1976
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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Among actors, Lily Pons ranks 3,964 out of 9,996. Before 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.
1967 - Present
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 3,958
1978 - Present
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 3,959
1975 - Present
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 3,960
1882 - 1956
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 3,961
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 3,962
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 3,963
1898 - 1976
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 3,964
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 3,965
1894 - 1974
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 3,966
1953 - 2022
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 3,967
1944 - 2014
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,968
1923 - 2010
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,969
1929 - Present
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,970
Among people born in 1898, Lily Pons ranks 179. Before 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 162. Before 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.
1898 - 1959
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 173
1898 - 1986
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 174
1898 - 1938
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 175
1898 - 1969
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 176
1898 - 1982
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 177
1898 - 1993
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 178
1898 - 1976
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 179
1898 - 1994
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 180
1898 - 1961
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 181
1898 - 1959
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 182
1898 - 1948
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 183
1898 - 1959
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 184
1898 - 1981
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 185
1897 - 1976
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 156
1943 - 1976
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 157
1904 - 1976
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 158
1938 - 1976
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 159
1935 - 1976
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 160
1907 - 1976
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 161
1898 - 1976
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 162
1891 - 1976
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 163
1891 - 1976
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 164
1891 - 1976
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 165
1900 - 1976
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 166
1920 - 1976
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 167
1888 - 1976
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 168
Among people born in France, Lily Pons ranks 3,924 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1904 - 1994
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 3,918
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 3,919
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 3,920
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 3,921
1901 - 1991
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 3,922
1940 - 2018
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 3,923
1898 - 1976
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 3,924
1759 - 1828
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 3,925
1883 - 1971
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,926
1939 - 2004
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 3,927
1926 - 1992
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 3,928
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 3,929
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 3,930
Among actors born in France, Lily Pons ranks 248. Before 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).
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 242
1877 - 1968
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 243
1966 - Present
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 244
1921 - 1974
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 245
1912 - 1991
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 246
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 247
1898 - 1976
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 248
1926 - 1992
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 249
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 250
1912 - 1971
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 251
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 252
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.41
Rank: 253
1921 - 2001
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 254