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Maureen O'Hara

1920 - 2015

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Maureen O'Hara (née FitzSimons; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maureen O'Hara has received more than 9,220,456 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Maureen O'Hara is the 685th most popular actor (up from 744th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 48th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Irish Actor.

Maureen O'Hara is most famous for her roles in Miracle on 34th Street, The Quiet Man, and How Green Was My Valley.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maureen O'Hara ranks 685 out of 13,578. Before her are Takashi Shimura, Uma Thurman, Hugo Weaving, André Antoine, Ethan Hawke, and Cléo de Mérode. After her are Erik Bruhn, Ryan Gosling, Tim Roth, Scott Glenn, Charles Boyer, and Barbara Bouchet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Maureen O'Hara ranks 57. Before her are Shelley Winters, Walter Nowotny, George Armitage Miller, P. D. James, Dave Brubeck, and Ovadia Yosef. After her are Jack Elam, Ștefan Kovács, Timothy Leary, Setsuko Hara, Mario Beccaria, and Tom of Finland. Among people deceased in 2015, Maureen O'Hara ranks 60. Before her are Richard F. Heck, Assia Djebar, Pierre Brice, Louis Jourdan, Marshall Rosenberg, and Francesco Rosi. After her are Zhelyu Zhelev, Rose Francine Rogombé, Setsuko Hara, Ben E. King, Udo Lattek, and Alfred G. Gilman.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Maureen O'Hara ranks 40 out of 549. Before her are Brendan Gleeson (1955), Francis Beaufort (1774), John Field (1782), Rory Gallagher (1948), Joseph Murphy (1898), and Ernest Walton (1903). After her are Bob Geldof (1951), Columba (521), Harald Gille (1103), Ethel Voynich (1864), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), and Saint Gall (550).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Maureen O'Hara ranks 8. Before her are Pierce Brosnan (1953), Richard Harris (1930), Lola Montez (1821), Cillian Murphy (1976), Gabriel Byrne (1950), and Brendan Gleeson (1955). After her are David Kelly (1929), Colin Farrell (1976), Brenda Fricker (1945), Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), and Liam Cunningham (1961).

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