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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 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 5,516,409 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sivaji Ganesan is the 4,066th most popular actor (up from 4,762nd in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from India (up from 554th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 5.5M

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  • 47.32

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  • 19

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  • 1.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 4,066 out of 9,996Before him are Charles Martinet, Catherine Bell, Kevin Pollak, Scott Eastwood, Rhona Mitra, and Don Wilson. After him are Michelle Dockery, Amparo Rivelles, Rory Calhoun, Ludivine Sagnier, Paige Turco, and Júlia Sigmond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 350Before him are Mário Pinto de Andrade, William Trevor, Tom Lantos, Simón Díaz, Marian Seldes, and Barbara Ann Scott. After him are Lucho Gatica, Flóra Kádár, Gerhard Stoltenberg, Károly Sándor, Ann Blyth, and Dara Singh. Among people deceased in 2001, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 198Before him are Dale Earnhardt, József Csermák, Lee Cronbach, Yuri Ozerov, Jean Richard, and Betty Holberton. After him are Gerhard Stoltenberg, Ranko Marinković, Franco Rasetti, Alberto Gallardo, Stanislav Rostotsky, and Mario Perazzolo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 512 out of 1,493Before him are Meira Kumar (1945), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Amrit Kaur (1889), P. T. Usha (1964), Fauja Singh (1911), and Har Dayal (1884). After him are D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jayakanthan (1934), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Mayawati (1956), Kedarnath Singh (1934), and Jamini Roy (1887).

Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Sivaji Ganesan ranks 52Before him are Sharmila Tagore (1944), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Jackie Shroff (1957), Hrithik Roshan (1974), Rajkumar (1929), and Madhuri Dixit (1967). After him are Sunny Deol (1956), Akshay Kumar (1967), Erick Avari (1952), Waheeda Rehman (1938), Sanjay Dutt (1959), and Kajal Aggarwal (1985).

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