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Petula Clark

1932 - Today

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Petula Clark CBE (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 81 years. Clark's professional career began during the Second World War as a child entertainer on BBC Radio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petula Clark has received more than 5,207,228 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Petula Clark is the 193rd most popular singer (up from 195th in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 851st in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Singer.

Petula Clark is most famous for her song "Downtown."

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  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Petula Clark ranks 193 out of 3,528Before her are Desireless, George Benson, Etta James, Franco Corelli, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, and Astrud Gilberto. After her are Drake, Udo Jürgens, Sam Cooke, Mariska Veres, Lara Fabian, and Mario Del Monaco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Petula Clark ranks 70Before her are Pier Angeli, Sheldon Lee Glashow, David Scott, Sonny Liston, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Thomas Klestil. After her are Walter Gilbert, Rainer Weiss, Naina Yeltsina, Fernando Arrabal, Emmanuelle Arsan, and Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Petula Clark ranks 833 out of 7,765Before her are W. O. Bentley (1888), Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (1982), Edmund Spenser (1552), Charles Vane (1680), Daniel Rutherford (1749), and Pete Townshend (1945). After her are Osborne Reynolds (1842), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), John Hanning Speke (1827), William Webb Ellis (1806), and Colin Maclaurin (1698).

Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Petula Clark ranks 24Before her are Tom Jones (1940), Bruce Dickinson (1958), Chris Norman (1950), Chris Rea (1951), David Coverdale (1951), and Bryan Ferry (1945). After her are Rob Halford (1951), Dave Gahan (1962), Dua Lipa (1995), Sarah Brightman (1960), Susan Boyle (1961), and Robbie Williams (1974).

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