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Margaret Hamilton

1902 - 1985

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Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American entertainer and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theatre, film, radio and television. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Hamilton has received more than 201,317 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Margaret Hamilton is the 3,056th most popular actor (down from 2,531st in 2019), the 4,634th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,060th in 2019) and the 1,380th most popular American Actor.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Margaret Hamilton ranks 3,056 out of 13,578. Before her are Kenny Ortega, Jack Albertson, Nigel Bruce, Jon Finch, Leighton Meester, and Jeffrey Wright. After her are Joe Dallesandro, Robert Montgomery, Julie Adams, Anna Q. Nilsson, Karel Roden, and Olivia Wilde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Margaret Hamilton ranks 183. Before her are Henry Hansen, Emanuel Feuermann, Carlos Vidal, Vissarion Shebalin, Manuel Seoane, and Jan Kiepura. After her are Sylvain Arend, Henri Saint Cyr, Moderato Wisintainer, Miriam Hopkins, Flora Robson, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Among people deceased in 1985, Margaret Hamilton ranks 122. Before her are Julia Robinson, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, René Barjavel, Ernest Nagel, Henry Hansen, and Sanjeev Kumar. After her are Penn Nouth, Helene Engelmann, Gaston Rébuffat, Vladimir Kokkinaki, George Raynor, and Harald Cramér.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 4,634 out of 20,380. Before her are Rick Perry (1950), Kenny Ortega (1950), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), Jack Albertson (1907), Leighton Meester (1986), and Jeffrey Wright (1965). After her are Braxton Bragg (1817), Joe Dallesandro (1948), Robert Montgomery (1904), Savanna Samson (1967), Julie Adams (1926), and Marilyn Horne (1934).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 1,380. Before her are Shemar Moore (1970), Kathleen Quinlan (1954), Kenny Ortega (1950), Jack Albertson (1907), Leighton Meester (1986), and Jeffrey Wright (1965). After her are Joe Dallesandro (1948), Robert Montgomery (1904), Julie Adams (1926), Olivia Wilde (1984), Emmy Rossum (1986), and Miriam Hopkins (1902).

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