ACTOR

Manoj Kumar

1937 - 2025

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Manoj Kumar (born Harikrishan Giri Goswami; 24 July 1937 – 4 April 2025) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he worked in 55 films. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Known for starting the trend of patriotic films, he was given the nickname Bharat Kumar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manoj Kumar has received more than 4,205,078 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Manoj Kumar is the 3,233rd most popular actor (up from 5,198th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 74th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Pakistani Actor.

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  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Manoj Kumar ranks 3,233 out of 13,578. Before him are Simon Callow, Harriet Walter, Jeremy Bulloch, Park Shin-hye, Michael Wincott, and Frank Gorshin. After him are Maggie Grace, Jenette Goldstein, Kristen Bell, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Jane Powell, and Gianni Russo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Manoj Kumar ranks 273. Before him are Charlie Haden, Petar Radaković, Vitaly Zholobov, José Augusto, Richard Petty, and Ken Ogata. After him are Gary Hocking, Coen Moulijn, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Lenny Wilkens, Cheng Yen, and Shirley Eaton. Among people deceased in 2025, Manoj Kumar ranks 50. Before him are David Vunagi, Robert Hübner, Clive Revill, Renato Corsetti, Fabio Cudicini, and Eddie Jordan. After him are Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Peter Bichsel, Max Romeo, Jean Marsh, and Frankétienne.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Manoj Kumar ranks 61 out of 217. Before him are Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), Milkha Singh (1935), Francis Younghusband (1863), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), and Farooq Leghari (1940). After him are Aafia Siddiqui (1972), Gulzar (1934), Duleep Singh (1838), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Yash Chopra (1932), and Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904).

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Among ACTORS In Pakistan

Among actors born in Pakistan, Manoj Kumar ranks 7. Before him are Dev Anand (1923), Kabir Bedi (1946), Pran (1920), Dilip Kumar (1922), Kumail Nanjiani (1978), and Sunil Dutt (1929). After him are Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Vinod Khanna (1946), Raaj Kumar (1926), Art Malik (1952), Balraj Sahni (1913), and Noor Jehan (1926).

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