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Paul McGann

1959 - Today

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Paul John McGann ( mə-GAN; born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 television film Doctor Who. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul McGann has received more than 4,190,637 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Paul McGann is the 5,835th most popular actor (down from 5,491st in 2019), the 4,371st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,198th in 2019) and the 713th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Paul McGann ranks 5,835 out of 9,996. Before him are Leslie Hope, Sharon Mitchell, Mike Mazurki, Maya Rudolph, Peggy Ann Garner, and Alice Lake. After him are William Mapother, Ron Livingston, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Park Yoo-chun, Michael Pitt, and Sterling K. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Paul McGann ranks 327. Before him are Ali Ahmeti, Choi Kang-hee, Viktor Chanov, Kim Newman, Nobuko Jashima, and Hallgrímur Helgason. After him are Dainis Kūla, Tracey Ullman, Noureddine Bedoui, Yuriko Shima, Chingiz Abdullayev, and Juan Antonio San Epifanio.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul McGann ranks 4,371 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Louis Fraser (1810), Michael Foot (1913), Jocelyn Pook (1960), Howard Donald (1968), and Daniel Harding (1975). After him are David Bedford (1937), Daniel Sturridge (1989), Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999), Tracey Ullman (1959), Murray Rose (1939), and Dana Rosemary Scallon (1951).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Paul McGann ranks 713. Before him are Jeremy Kemp (1935), Vincent Regan (1965), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), Paul Ritter (1966), Dawn French (1957), and John Barrowman (1967). After him are Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999), Denis Lawson (1947), Florence Pugh (1996), Adam Godley (1964), Una O'Connor (1880), and Colin Baker (1943).

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