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Noor Jehan

1926 - 2000

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Noor Jehan (21 September 1926 – 23 December 2000) was a Pakistani playback singer and actress who worked in both British India and later in Pakistan's cinema. Her career lasted over six decades, during which she recorded 10,000 songs. Jehan had proficiency in Hindustani classical music, as well as in other genres such as Punjabi and Sindhi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noor Jehan has received more than 3,156,333 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Noor Jehan is the 5,290th most popular actor (up from 5,767th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 79th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Pakistani Actor.

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  • 3.2M

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  • 53.80

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Noor Jehan ranks 5,290 out of 13,578. Before her are James Darren, Nam Joo-hyuk, Carlo Giuffrè, Azra Akın, Noah Hathaway, and Sam Lloyd. After her are Gil Gerard, Mary Alden, Vanessa Marcil, Matt Craven, Bill Robinson, and Ciro Verratti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Noor Jehan ranks 390. Before her are Roberto Goyeneche, Miguel León-Portilla, Evelyn Lear, Sverre Stenersen, Bill Black, and Angus Scrimm. After her are Vira Vovk, Chuck Cooper, Georgi Yumatov, Mustafa Ertan, Ernest Mühlen, and Helen Gallagher. Among people deceased in 2000, Noor Jehan ranks 244. Before her are Göran Tunström, Jean Dotto, Jacques Laurent, Nils Täpp, Patricia Jones, and Kenneth Lee Pike. After her are Alexandros Nikolopoulos, Curt Siodmak, Marc Davis, Edward Craven Walker, Enric Miralles, and Julius J. Epstein.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Noor Jehan ranks 82 out of 217. Before her are Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Balraj Sahni (1913), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950), and Reginald Dyer (1864). After her are Shekhar Kapur (1945), Babita (1947), Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893), Shaukat Aziz (1949), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), and Birbal Sahni (1891).

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Among ACTORS In Pakistan

Among actors born in Pakistan, Noor Jehan ranks 13. Before her are Manoj Kumar (1937), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Vinod Khanna (1946), Raaj Kumar (1926), Art Malik (1952), and Balraj Sahni (1913). After her are Babita (1947), Margaret Lockwood (1916), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), Prem Chopra (1935), Manorama (1926), and Sultan Rahi (1938).

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