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Spike Milligan

1918 - 2002

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Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spike Milligan has received more than 3,480,545 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Spike Milligan is the 5,341st most popular actor (up from 5,784th in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from India (down from 645th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Indian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Spike Milligan ranks 5,341 out of 13,578. Before him are John Schneider, Matthew Labyorteaux, Hans Deppe, Michael Shanks, Alf Kjellin, and Shelley Morrison. After him are Mum Jokmok, Michael Beach, Roy Dotrice, Dane DeHaan, Barnard Hughes, and Yoshiko Tanaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Spike Milligan ranks 239. Before him are Balasaraswati, Don McNeill, Enrique Tierno Galván, Luciano Emmer, Artur Brauner, and Horacio Casarín. After him are Marcelo González Martín, Edward Craven Walker, Jorge Illueca, Giovanni Cheli, Max de Terra, and Richard Hoggart. Among people deceased in 2002, Spike Milligan ranks 254. Before him are Louis-Marie Billé, Barry Foster, Ekrem Akurgal, Jan de Hartog, Leo Ornstein, and Eugen Meier. After him are John R. Pierce, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Jack Kruschen, Stafford Beer, Walter Winterbottom, and Zoran Janković.

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In India

Among people born in India, Spike Milligan ranks 682 out of 1,861. Before him are Joseph Coutts (1945), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Kareena Kapoor (1980), and Manilal Gandhi (1892). After him are Ashok Kumar (1911), Begum Akhtar (1914), Freida Pinto (1984), Amrita Singh (1958), Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), and Chiranjeevi (1955).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Spike Milligan ranks 87. Before him are Nana Patekar (1951), Farida Jalal (1949), Asha Parekh (1942), Dimple Kapadia (1957), Zeenat Aman (1951), and Kareena Kapoor (1980). After him are Ashok Kumar (1911), Freida Pinto (1984), Amrita Singh (1958), Chiranjeevi (1955), Reema Lagoo (1958), and Juhi Chawla (1967).

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