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Linda McCartney

1941 - 1998

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Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings that also featured her husband, Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Linda began a career as a photographer, landing with Town & Country, where she soon gained assignments to photograph various musicians and entertainers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Linda McCartney has received more than 10,742,719 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Linda McCartney is the 264th most popular companion (up from 292nd in 2019), the 1,100th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,319th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Companion.

Linda McCartney was a photographer and animal rights activist. She was married to Paul McCartney and they had four children together. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died from the disease in 1998.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Linda McCartney ranks 264 out of 784. Before her are Anne of Bohemia, Christina of Saxony, Agnes of Antioch, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Anna Porphyrogenita, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. After her are Louise of Great Britain, Imelda Marcos, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Maria Laskarina, Adelaide del Vasto, and Elisabeth of Romania.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Linda McCartney ranks 75. Before her are Milan Kučan, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ritchie Valens, Karl Barry Sharpless, Cass Elliot, and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. After her are Vladimir Voronin, Mohamed Ghannouchi, Paul Anka, John E. Walker, Tom Conti, and Sergio Oliva. Among people deceased in 1998, Linda McCartney ranks 26. Before her are Tameo Ide, Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, and Allan MacLeod Cormack. After her are Alfred Schnittke, George H. Hitchings, André Weil, Lúcio Costa, Kenichi Fukui, and Galina Ulanova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Linda McCartney ranks 1,100 out of 20,380. Before her are Brendan Fraser (1968), Arthur Ashe (1943), Joanne Woodward (1930), Betty White (1922), Stephen Covey (1932), and Dean Reed (1938). After her are Richard Thaler (1945), Laura Bush (1946), Robert Vaughn (1932), Idina Menzel (1971), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), and George Jung (1942).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Linda McCartney ranks 5. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Olympias (-375), Priscilla Presley (1945), and Rosalynn Carter (1927). After her are Martha Washington (1731), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Pat Nixon (1912), Abigail Adams (1744), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), and Ellen Axson Wilson (1860).

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