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Mary Garden

1874 - 1967

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Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish-American operatic lyric soprano, then mezzo-soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she spent the last 30 years of her life and died. Described as "the Sarah Bernhardt of opera", Garden was an exceptional actress as well as a talented singer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Garden has received more than 163,308 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mary Garden is the 1,494th most popular singer (down from 1,326th in 2019), the 4,006th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,707th in 2019) and the 160th most popular British Singer.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Mary Garden ranks 1,494 out of 4,381Before her are Rita Ora, Layal Abboud, Masashi Tashiro, Anuradha Paudwal, Joy Fleming, and Ali Akbar Khan. After her are Henri Dès, Sally Yeh, Tom Lehrer, Florence Ballard, Danièle Dupré, and Malvina Reynolds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Mary Garden ranks 206Before her are George Irving, Jean Collas, Frank Knox, Paul Van Asbroeck, Hermann Wilker, and André Gaudin. After her are Grantley Goulding, Sergey Lebedev, Joseph Olivier, Charles A. Beard, Guido Balzarini, and Henry Kolker. Among people deceased in 1967, Mary Garden ranks 223Before her are Michael J. Adams, Fridrikh Ermler, Ulderico Sergo, Sergey Gorodetsky, Halina Poświatowska, and Charles Darrow. After her are Marie Noël, Paul Castanet, Francis Spellman, Johan Falkberget, James Dunn, and Stanley Bruce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Garden ranks 4,006 out of 8,785Before her are Burt Kwouk (1930), Philip Hammond (1955), Conor Gallagher (2000), Kevin McKidd (1973), Sax Rohmer (1883), and Brian Naylor (1923). After her are William Robertson (1721), Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841), David Cross (1949), Roy Bentley (1924), Ivor Allchurch (1929), and Robert Whitehead (1823).

Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Mary Garden ranks 160Before her are Curt Smith (1961), Mark Owen (1972), Mel B (1975), Ray Wilson (1968), Alma Cogan (1932), and Lisa Stansfield (1966). After her are M.I.A. (1975), Ewan MacColl (1915), Acker Bilk (1929), Tina Charles (1954), Colin Hay (1953), and Spencer Davis (1939).