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Sidney Poitier

1927 - 2022

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Sidney Poitier ( PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Poitier has received more than 15,497,539 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Sidney Poitier is the 97th most popular actor (up from 233rd in 2019), the most popular biography from The Bahamas (up from 453rd in 2019) and the most popular Bahamian Actor.

Sidney Poitier is most famous for being the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 87

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sidney Poitier ranks 97 out of 9,996. Before him are Judi Dench, Richard Gere, Charlotte Rampling, Leslie Nielsen, Jason Statham, and Michael Gambon. After him are Pierce Brosnan, Tom Selleck, Shah Rukh Khan, Gary Cooper, Alec Baldwin, and Monica Vitti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Sidney Poitier ranks 9. Before him are Ferenc Puskás, Olof Palme, Roger Moore, Gina Lollobrigida, Günter Grass, and Bhumibol Adulyadej. After him are Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, Lawrence Kohlberg, Turgut Özal, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Among people deceased in 2022, Sidney Poitier ranks 9. Before him are Pelé, Pope Benedict XVI, Luc Montagnier, Jean-Luc Godard, Jiang Zemin, and Vangelis. After him are Monica Vitti, Leonid Kravchuk, Francisco Gento, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Kane Tanaka, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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In The Bahamas

Among people born in The Bahamas, Sidney Poitier ranks 1 out of 27. After him are Durward Knowles (1917), Perry Christie (1943), Sebastian Bach (1968), Kimbo Slice (1974), Hubert Minnis (1954), Arthur Foulkes (1928), Lynden Pindling (1930), Mark Knowles (1971), Donald Thomas (1984), Ryan Sweeting (1987), and Troy Kemp (1966).

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Among ACTORS In The Bahamas

Among actors born in The Bahamas, Sidney Poitier ranks 1. After him are Kimbo Slice (1974).

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