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May Whitty

1865 - 1948

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Dame Mary Louise Webster, (née Whitty; 19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors' union Equity was established in her home in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of May Whitty has received more than 478,976 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. May Whitty is the 4,272nd most popular actor (down from 2,664th in 2019), the 3,333rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,407th in 2019) and the 500th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

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  • 48.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, May Whitty ranks 4,272 out of 13,578. Before her are Naima Akef, Robert John Burke, Hōchū Ōtsuka, Alfonso Arau, Billy Barty, and Romain Duris. After her are Arturo de Córdova, Andrei Smirnov, László Szabó, Harrison Young, Rand Brooks, and Priscilla Pointer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, May Whitty ranks 128. Before her are Yevgeni Bauer, Mikhail Tskhakaya, Robert Henri, Sakina Akhundzadeh, Elise Richter, and Lionel Dunsterville. After her are Guido Castelnuovo, Louis Borno, Madison Grant, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Otto Modersohn, and Olavo Bilac. Among people deceased in 1948, May Whitty ranks 145. Before her are Alfredo Baldomir, Marcel Brillouin, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Abraham Brill, Alfred Lacroix, and Gregg Toland. After her are Julius Curtius, Samuel P. Bush, Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, José Vianna da Motta, Zhu Ziqing, and Manuel Arce y Ochotorena.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, May Whitty ranks 3,333 out of 8,785. Before her are John Negroponte (1939), Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374), Neil Aspinall (1941), Sarah Kane (1971), Peter Gethin (1940), and Grace Aguilar (1816). After her are Thomas Middleton (1580), Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), Peter Bonetti (1941), William Lawes (1602), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), and Richard de Bury (1287).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, May Whitty ranks 500. Before her are Jon Pertwee (1919), Tommy Cooper (1921), Ian McNeice (1950), Catherine Bell (1968), Clive Russell (1945), and Eric Sykes (1923). After her are Michael Wilding (1912), Rupert Graves (1963), Dominic Cooper (1978), Simon McBurney (1957), James Donald (1917), and Gary Lewis (1957).

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