ACTOR

Om Puri

1950 - 2017

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Om Prakash Puri, (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, English, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, and Marathi films, as well as independent and art films and also starred in several international cinema. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema. He won two National Film Awards for Best Actor, two Filmfare Awards and India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Om Puri has received more than 7,108,548 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Om Puri is the 3,405th most popular actor (up from 3,520th in 2019), the 487th most popular biography from India (down from 462nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Indian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Om Puris by language

Over the past year Om Puri has had the most page views in the with 609,853 views, followed by Hindi (26,038), and Russian (12,508). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (188.85%), Pashto (140.88%), and Latin (119.18%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Om Puri ranks 3,405 out of 13,578. Before him are Rosa Maria Sardà, Selma Blair, Casper Van Dien, Trine Dyrholm, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and Greta Gerwig. After him are Sergi López, Eileen Heckart, C. Aubrey Smith, Stephen Root, Sid Haig, and Ann Blyth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Om Puri ranks 273. Before him are Andrzej Bartkowiak, Gérard Lanvin, Ali Zeidan, Maggie MacNeal, Dann Florek, and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. After him are Jeff Conaway, Joe Bugner, Melissa Mathison, Richard Berry, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, and Dino Meneghin. Among people deceased in 2017, Om Puri ranks 266. Before him are Richard Hatch, Leonid Bronevoy, Giulio Angioni, Jaki Liebezeit, Lennart Nilsson, and Jiří Bělohlávek. After him are Kim Young-ae, Márta Rudas, Alois Mock, Tim Pigott-Smith, Margot Hielscher, and Ludvig Faddeev.

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In India

Among people born in India, Om Puri ranks 487 out of 1,861. Before him are Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Somnath Sharma (1923), Sharad Pawar (1940), and Harish-Chandra (1923). After him are Arundhati Roy (1961), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Nutan (1936), Kumaragupta I (400), and Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Om Puri ranks 42. Before him are Jeetendra (1942), Sanjeev Kumar (1938), Tanuja (1943), Anupam Kher (1955), Shammi Kapoor (1931), and Madhuri Dixit (1967). After him are Nutan (1936), Irrfan Khan (1967), Kumar Pallana (1918), Waheeda Rehman (1938), Sunny Deol (1956), and Erick Avari (1952).

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