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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 7,149,059 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Om Puri is the 3,525th most popular actor (up from 3,839th in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from India (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular Indian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Om Puri ranks 3,525 out of 9,996. Before him are Bo Hopkins, Geoff Pierson, Dixie Carter, Eva Ionesco, Richard Roxburgh, and Saïd Taghmaoui. After him are Christina Pickles, Vincent Gardenia, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Ellen Corby, Nathalie Emmanuel, and David Dencik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Om Puri ranks 263. Before him are Harriet Walter, Keizo Imai, Volkan Bozkır, Angry Grandpa, Jurica Jerković, and Francis Collins. After him are Carlos Caszely, Anémone, Oswaldo de Oliveira, Carlo Verdone, Maurilio De Zolt, and Rubén Ayala. Among people deceased in 2017, Om Puri ranks 271. Before him are Timo Mäkinen, Angry Grandpa, Darlene Cates, Ludvig Faddeev, Darlanne Fluegel, and Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton. After him are Daniil Granin, Eugene Garfield, François Van der Elst, Alec McCowen, Amotz Zahavi, and Richard Hatch.

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In India

Among people born in India, Om Puri ranks 466 out of 1,493. Before him are Amjad Khan (1940), Janaki Ammal (1897), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Soumitra Chatterjee (1935), Bipin Rawat (1958), and Andrew Scott Waugh (1810). After him are Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Nutan (1936), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Azim Premji (1945), Verghese Kurien (1921), and H. D. Deve Gowda (1933).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Om Puri ranks 44. Before him are Roshan Seth (1942), Shammi Kapoor (1931), Rekha (1954), Suriya (1975), Amjad Khan (1940), and Soumitra Chatterjee (1935). After him are Nutan (1936), Sharmila Tagore (1944), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Jackie Shroff (1957), Hrithik Roshan (1974), and Rajkumar (1929).

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