ACTOR

Raj Kapoor

1924 - 1988

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Raj Kapoor (pronunciation: [ɾaːd͡ʒ kəpuːɾ], born Shrishti Nath Kapoor; also known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor; 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988) was an Indian actor, film producer and film director who worked in Hindi cinema. He received multiple accolades, including three National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards in India. The Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award is named after Kapoor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raj Kapoor has received more than 9,647,679 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Raj Kapoor is the 714th most popular actor (down from 469th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Pakistan and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Actor.

Raj Kapoor is most famous for his films Awaara (1951) and Shree 420 (1955).

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  • 9.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Raj Kapoor ranks 714 out of 10,030. Before him are Pier Angeli, Virginia Cherrill, David Morse, Gong Li, Conrad Bain, and Rene Russo. After him are Karen Grassle, Maurice Ronet, Daniela Bianchi, Ian McDiarmid, Tom Berenger, and Richard E. Grant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Raj Kapoor ranks 58. Before him are Eva Marie Saint, James Baldwin, Ephraim Kishon, Ante Marković, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. After him are Georges Prêtre, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Daniel arap Moi, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Michel Tournier, and Sverre Fehn. Among people deceased in 1988, Raj Kapoor ranks 33. Before him are Tibor Sekelj, André Frédéric Cournand, Muzafer Sherif, Valerie Solanas, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and Franz Josef Strauss. After him are Henryk Szeryng, Hermann Graf, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Christina Onassis, Farida of Egypt, and Richard S. Castellano.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Raj Kapoor ranks 18 out of 158. Before him are Vasubandhu (400), Asanga (300), Kanishka (78), Abdus Salam (1926), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), and Dev Anand (1923). After him are Har Gobind Khorana (1922), Aga Khan III (1877), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Manmohan Singh (1932), Ranjit Singh (1780), and Guru Ram Das (1534).

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Among ACTORS In Pakistan

Among actors born in Pakistan, Raj Kapoor ranks 2. Before him are Dev Anand (1923). After him are Kabir Bedi (1946), Dilip Kumar (1922), Sunil Dutt (1929), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Kumail Nanjiani (1978), Amjad Khan (1940), Kader Khan (1937), Vinod Khanna (1946), Raaj Kumar (1926), and Manoj Kumar (1937).

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