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Sarah Siddons

1755 - 1831

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Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified". She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton, and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Siddons has received more than 373,895 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Sarah Siddons is the 2,677th most popular actor (up from 3,601st in 2019), the 2,369th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,989th in 2019) and the 322nd most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sarah Siddons ranks 2,677 out of 13,578. Before her are Eddie Bracken, Gösta Ekman, Sven-Bertil Taube, Jarl Kulle, Dany Robin, and Robin Shou. After her are James Karen, Vladimir Ivashov, James Marsden, Sunil Dutt, Tamara Toumanova, and Moses Gunn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Sarah Siddons ranks 35. Before her are Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Gilbert Stuart, Fausto Elhuyar, Anacharsis Cloots, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. After her are Robert Kerr, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Stanisław Staszic, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, Dorothea Viehmann, and Nicolas Fuss. Among people deceased in 1831, Sarah Siddons ranks 41. Before her are Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Kazinczy, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Jean-Louis Pons, and Mariana Pineda. After her are Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Anton Delvig, Dmitry Senyavin, Józef Kozłowski, and Josef August Schultes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sarah Siddons ranks 2,369 out of 8,785. Before her are Tony Cragg (1949), John Brunner (1934), George Dawe (1781), Robert Catesby (1573), Kelly Brook (1979), and June Almeida (1930). After her are Jock Stein (1922), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), Patrick Troughton (1920), Charles Burney (1726), James Nasmyth (1808), and Ray Cooney (1932).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Sarah Siddons ranks 322. Before her are Claude Rains (1889), Veronica Cartwright (1949), Rachel Roberts (1927), David Tomlinson (1917), Murray Head (1946), and Jamie Dornan (1982). After her are Patrick Troughton (1920), Ray Cooney (1932), John Mahoney (1940), Hayley Atwell (1982), John Williams (1903), and Toby Jones (1966).

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