SCULPTOR

Marie Tussaud

1761 - 1850

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Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud (French pronunciation: [maʁi tyso]; née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850), commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Tussaud has received more than 1,549,866 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Marie Tussaud is the 19th most popular sculptor (down from 18th in 2019), the 657th most popular biography from France (down from 562nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Sculptor.

Marie Tussaud is most famous for her wax museum in London.

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  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Marie Tussaud ranks 19 out of 258. Before her are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Constantin Brâncuși, Giambologna, Scopas, Henry Moore, and Nicola Pisano. After her are Jacopo Sansovino, Luca della Robbia, Alessandro Algardi, Giovanni Pisano, Alexander Calder, and Andrea Pisano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Marie Tussaud ranks 4. Before her are Pope Pius VIII, Selim III, and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly. After her are Jan Potocki, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, William Carey, August von Kotzebue, Philippe Buonarroti, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Sineperver Sultan, and Louis-Léopold Boilly. Among people deceased in 1850, Marie Tussaud ranks 9. Before her are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, William Wordsworth, Zachary Taylor, Daoguang Emperor, Báb, and José de San Martín. After her are Frédéric Bastiat, Louise of Orléans, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Lin Zexu, Germain Henri Hess, and José Gervasio Artigas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie Tussaud ranks 657 out of 6,770. Before her are Ausonius (310), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), Pérotin (1160), Marin Marais (1656), Simone Veil (1927), and Paul Mauriat (1925). After her are Frédéric Bastiat (1801), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Raoul Dufy (1877), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Aristide Maillol (1861), and Hubert de Givenchy (1927).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Marie Tussaud ranks 5. Before her are Auguste Rodin (1840), Camille Claudel (1864), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), and Giambologna (1529). After her are Paul Landowski (1875), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), Louise Bourgeois (1911), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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