DANCER

Micheline Bernardini

1927 - Today

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Micheline Bernardini (born 1 December 1927) is a French former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris who agreed to model, on 5 July 1946, Louis Réard's two-piece swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Micheline Bernardini has received more than 352,322 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Micheline Bernardini is the 59th most popular dancer (up from 73rd in 2019), the 3,595th most popular biography from France (up from 4,141st in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Dancer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Micheline Bernardini ranks 59 out of 116. Before her are Merce Cunningham, Hilde Holger, Carla Fracci, William Forsythe, Lucile Grahn, and Alvin Ailey. After her are John Cranko, Ninette de Valois, Jean Coralli, John Neumeier, Vladimir Vasiliev, and Tamara Khanum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Micheline Bernardini ranks 215. Before her are Irina Skobtseva, Pierre Granier-Deferre, L. Q. Jones, Josep Maria Subirachs, Adrián Escudero, and Alma Adamkienė. After her are Greta Andersen, Roger Carel, Yusuf Idris, Thorkild Hansen, Liane Augustin, and Fathima Beevi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Micheline Bernardini ranks 3,595 out of 6,770. Before her are Gérard Collomb (1947), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Andréa Parisy (1935), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940), François de Tournon (1489), and Achille Valenciennes (1794). After her are Lucien Simon (1861), Henri Callot (1875), Maurice Tourneur (1876), Jean Robic (1921), Joseph Duplessis (1725), and Magda Julin (1894).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, Micheline Bernardini ranks 11. Before her are Pierre Beauchamp (1631), Liane de Pougy (1869), Roland Petit (1924), Jules Perrot (1810), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), and Arthur Saint-Léon (1821). After her are Jean Coralli (1779), Yvette Chauviré (1917), and Sylvie Guillem (1965).

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