PHOTOGRAPHER

Napoleon Sarony

1821 - 1896

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Napoléon Sarony (March 9, 1821 – November 9, 1896) was an American lithographer and photographer. He was a highly popular portrait photographer, best known for his portraits of the stars of late-19th-century American theater. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Napoleon Sarony has received more than 173,002 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Napoleon Sarony is the 54th most popular photographer, the 170th most popular biography from Canada and the most popular Canadian Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Napoleon Sarony ranks 54 out of 148. Before him are André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Patrick Demarchelier, Daidō Moriyama, Cecil Beaton, Sophie Calle, and Gustav Klutsis. After him are Inge Morath, Kishin Shinoyama, Étienne Carjat, William Klein, Abbas, and Boris Mikhailov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Napoleon Sarony ranks 48. Before him are Vasile Alecsandri, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Arthur Saint-Léon, Ion C. Brătianu, Champfleury, and Giuseppe Saracco. After him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Karel Havlíček Borovský, John C. Breckinridge, Karol Mikuli, Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. Among people deceased in 1896, Napoleon Sarony ranks 47. Before him are Rainilaiarivony, Stamata Revithi, Karl Verner, Antonio Maceo Grajales, Jules Simon, and Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky. After him are William Robert Grove, Charles Floquet, Charilaos Trikoupis, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Ferdinand von Mueller, and Maria Wodzińska.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Napoleon Sarony ranks 170 out of 1,622. Before him are Jeff Wall (1946), Stephen Harper (1959), Joe Shuster (1914), Henry Czerny (1959), James Doohan (1920), and Emily Carr (1871). After him are Alfred Aho (1941), Nelly Furtado (1978), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Ian Hacking (1936), Anne Carson (1950), and Viola Desmond (1914).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Canada

Among photographers born in Canada, Napoleon Sarony ranks 1. 

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