ACTOR

Ruan Lingyu

1910 - 1935

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Ruan Lingyu (born Ruan Fenggen; April 26, 1910 – March 8, 1935), also known by her English name Lily Yuen, was a Chinese silent film actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruan Lingyu has received more than 337,972 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruan Lingyu is the 1,711th most popular actor (down from 1,703rd in 2019), the 606th most popular biography from China (down from 574th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Chinese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ruan Lingyu ranks 1,711 out of 13,578Before her are Choi Min-sik, Vic Morrow, Aleksey Batalov, James Cosmo, Mirtha Legrand, and Shintaro Katsu. After her are Albert Austin, Liam Cunningham, Mila Kunis, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, James McAvoy, and Charlie Rivel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Ruan Lingyu ranks 110Before her are Heinz Hoffmann, Dorothea Tanning, Sylvia Sidney, Rudolf Kempe, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and Félix Candela. After her are Lothar Collatz, Fritz Leiber, John W. Campbell, Cao Yu, Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, and Hazi Aslanov. Among people deceased in 1935, Ruan Lingyu ranks 58Before her are Edoardo Agnelli, Juan Vicente Gómez, Alexander von Linsingen, Meletius IV of Constantinople, Louis de Beaufront, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. After her are Pavlos Kountouriotis, James Henry Breasted, Aleksandër Moisiu, Otto Schott, Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, and René Crevel.

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In China

Among people born in China, Ruan Lingyu ranks 606 out of 1,610Before her are Wang Ming (1904), Emperor Xiaowu of Jin (362), Sengge Rinchen (1811), Zhang Ziyi (1979), Ding Ruchang (1836), and Yan Zhenqing (709). After her are Wang Fuzhi (1619), Jia Yi (-200), Jimmy Lai (1948), Kenneth Tsang (1935), Cao Yu (1910), and Ding Ling (1904).

Among ACTORS In China

Among actors born in China, Ruan Lingyu ranks 17Before her are Yuen Siu-tien (1912), Ti Lung (1946), Zhou Xuan (1920), Joan Chen (1961), Na Moon-hee (1941), and Zhang Ziyi (1979). After her are Kenneth Tsang (1935), Roy Chiao (1927), Li Bingbing (1973), Jimmy Wang Yu (1943), Lee Hoi-chuen (1901), and Lau Kar-leung (1934).