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Sivaji Ganesan

1928 - 2001

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Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sivaji Ganesan has received more than 5,747,715 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Sivaji Ganesan is the 4,195th most popular actor (down from 4,059th in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from India (down from 508th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 5.7M

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  • 48.75

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 4,195 out of 13,578. Before him are Noah Taylor, Reginald Owen, Franchot Tone, Cha Seung-won, Edmund Purdom, and Galina Volchek. After him are Irma Serrano, Lori Loughlin, Jung Woo-sung, Iya Savvina, Won Bin, and Lewis Arquette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 375. Before him are Piero Angela, Amotz Zahavi, Serge Bourguignon, Danuta Siedzikówna, Ennio de Giorgi, and Åke Johansson. After him are Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Léon Glovacki, Germà Colón, Belaid Abdessalam, Jean Barraqué, and Horst Stein. Among people deceased in 2001, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 211. Before him are Trịnh Công Sơn, Tommy Flanagan, Bernard Heuvelmans, Simon Slåttvik, Boris Rybakov, and Joe Fagan. After him are Lewis Arquette, Ranko Marinković, Ettore Puricelli, Eudora Welty, Juan José Arreola, and Martha Mödl.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 579 out of 1,861. Before him are Sushma Swaraj (1952), Roshan Seth (1942), Naseeruddin Shah (1949), The Great Gama (1878), Verghese Kurien (1921), and Muhammad Azam Shah (1653). After him are Launceston Elliot (1874), Fauja Singh (1911), Charu Majumdar (1918), Kajal Aggarwal (1985), Cerverí de Girona (1259), and Baji Rao II (1775).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 63. Before him are Pankaj Kapur (1954), Uttam Kumar (1926), Devika Rani (1908), Hrithik Roshan (1974), Roshan Seth (1942), and Naseeruddin Shah (1949). After him are Kajal Aggarwal (1985), Sanjay Dutt (1959), Kamal Haasan (1954), Mukesh (1923), Saif Ali Khan (1970), and Tiger Shroff (1990).

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Television and Movie Roles

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Apr 1o 19997.5 / 10
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A classical bharathanatyam dancer and a nathaswaram player fall in love against the wishes of her family.
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