ACTOR

Olivia Newton-John

1948 - 2022

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer and actress. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included fifteen top-ten singles, including five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olivia Newton-John has received more than 25,956,811 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Olivia Newton-John is the 180th most popular actor (up from 355th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 488th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Actor.

Olivia Newton-John is most famous for her music, especially her songs "Physical," "Let's Get Physical," and "You're the One That I Want."

Memorability Metrics

  • 26M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Olivia Newton-John ranks 180 out of 13,578. Before her are Fred Astaire, Stellan Skarsgård, Ornella Muti, Peter Ustinov, Gary Oldman, and Franco Nero. After her are Jack Lemmon, Spencer Tracy, Alec Guinness, Graham Chapman, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Nicole Kidman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Olivia Newton-John ranks 17. Before her are Hassan Rouhani, Sauli Niinistö, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ozzy Osbourne, Jan Palach, and Jeremy Irons. After her are Antonín Panenka, Henning Mankell, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Marcello Lippi, Sven-Göran Eriksson, and Andrzej Sapkowski. Among people deceased in 2022, Olivia Newton-John ranks 15. Before her are Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Leonid Kravchuk, and Ayman al-Zawahiri. After her are Madeleine Albright, Monica Vitti, Ben Roy Mottelson, Vivienne Westwood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Robbie Coltrane.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Olivia Newton-John ranks 259 out of 8,785. Before her are Edmond Halley (1656), Lady Jane Grey (1537), Arthur Evans (1851), Peter Ustinov (1921), Gary Oldman (1958), and Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837). After her are Richard Trevithick (1771), Alec Guinness (1914), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Graham Chapman (1941), Anthony Giddens (1938), and James George Frazer (1854).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Olivia Newton-John ranks 27. Before her are Richard Madden (1986), Laurence Olivier (1907), Stan Laurel (1890), Jeremy Irons (1948), Peter Ustinov (1921), and Gary Oldman (1958). After her are Alec Guinness (1914), Graham Chapman (1941), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Timothy Dalton (1946), David Suchet (1946), and Vanessa Redgrave (1937).

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