1944 - 2019
Peter William Mayhew (May 19, 1944 – April 30, 2019) was an English-American actor, best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Mayhew has received more than 4,927,983 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Peter Mayhew is the 1,219th most popular actor (down from 635th in 2019), the 1,390th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 862nd in 2019) and the 179th most popular British Actor.
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Among actors, Peter Mayhew ranks 1,219 out of 10,030. Before him are Kirsten Dunst, George Reeves, Myrna Loy, Otto Sander, Lucy Lawless, and Laurence Harvey. After him are Casey Affleck, Richard Bull, Rita Wilson, Britt Ekland, Marisa Tomei, and Chris Evans.
1982 - Present
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 1,213
1914 - 1959
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 1,214
1905 - 1993
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 1,215
1941 - 2013
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 1,216
1968 - Present
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 1,217
1928 - 1973
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 1,218
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 1,219
1975 - Present
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 1,220
1924 - 2014
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 1,221
1956 - Present
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,222
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,223
1964 - Present
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,224
1981 - Present
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,225
Among people born in 1944, Peter Mayhew ranks 141. Before him are Chris Patten, Brian Tracy, Sergei Belov, Chico Mendes, Michel Polnareff, and Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto. After him are Marie-Christine Barrault, Angela Winkler, Steve Fossett, Tsuyoshi Kunieda, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, and Agnes Baltsa. Among people deceased in 2019, Peter Mayhew ranks 103. Before him are Hirokazu Kanazawa, Gershon Kingsley, Dušan Makavejev, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Robert Frank, and Rip Torn. After him are Harold Bloom, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Dawda Jawara, Monkey Punch, Kevin Roche, and Machiko Kyō.
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 135
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 136
1944 - 2013
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 137
1944 - 1988
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 138
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 139
1944 - 2020
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 140
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 141
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 142
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 143
1944 - 2007
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 144
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 145
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 146
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 147
1931 - 2019
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 97
1922 - 2019
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 98
1932 - 2019
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 99
1947 - 2019
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 100
1924 - 2019
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 101
1931 - 2019
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 102
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 103
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 104
1920 - 2019
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 105
1924 - 2019
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 106
1937 - 2019
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 107
1922 - 2019
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 108
1924 - 2019
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 109
Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mayhew ranks 1,390 out of 6,924. Before him are Peter Burke (1937), David Ogilvy (1911), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Reginald Lee (1870), Edward Frankland (1825), and John Gould (1804). After him are Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Patrick O'Brian (1914), Elizabeth Blount (1500), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), James Herriot (1916), and Roger Deakins (1949).
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 1,384
1911 - 1999
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 1,385
1689 - 1717
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 1,386
1870 - 1913
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 1,387
1825 - 1899
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 1,388
1804 - 1881
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 1,389
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 1,390
1936 - 2004
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,391
1914 - 2000
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,392
1500 - 1539
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1,393
1415 - 1472
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 1,394
1916 - 1995
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 1,395
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 1,396
Among actors born in United Kingdom, Peter Mayhew ranks 179. Before him are Jared Harris (1961), Marina Berti (1924), Emilia Clarke (1986), David Bradley (1942), Anthony Daniels (1946), and Alan Bates (1934). After him are Edward Fox (1937), Ronald Colman (1891), Rupert Everett (1959), Channing Tatum (1980), Peter Vaughan (1923), and Guy Pearce (1967).
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 173
1924 - 2002
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 174
1986 - Present
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 175
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 176
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 177
1934 - 2003
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 178
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 179
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 180
1891 - 1958
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 181
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 182
1980 - Present
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 183
1923 - 2016
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 184
1967 - Present
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 185