1918 - 2002
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, poet and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in India, where he spent his childhood, relocating to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of the British radio programme The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the Eccles and Minnie Bannister characters. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spike Milligan has received more than 1,955,422 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Spike Milligan is the 4,632nd most popular actor (down from 4,168th in 2019), the 539th most popular biography from India (down from 455th in 2019) and the 74th most popular Indian Actor.
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Among actors, Spike Milligan ranks 4,632 out of 10,030. Before him are Bae Doona, Justin Long, Kelly Macdonald, Amanda Bynes, Michael Rapaport, and Terry Bradshaw. After him are Emmanuelle Devos, Art Acord, Necati Şaşmaz, Lucy Hale, Charles Fleischer, and Rachelle Lefevre.
1979 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 4,626
1978 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 4,627
1976 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 4,628
1986 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 4,629
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,630
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,631
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,632
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,633
1890 - 1931
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,634
1971 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,635
1989 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,636
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,637
1979 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 4,638
Among people born in 1918, Spike Milligan ranks 214. Before him are Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Jorge Illueca, Mariano Mores, Yevgeniya Sechenova, Luis Alcoriza, and Donald Regan. After him are Stubby Kaye, Sebastian Cabot, Mrinalini Sarabhai, John Bromwich, Johnnie Parsons, and Professor Longhair. Among people deceased in 2002, Spike Milligan ranks 220. Before him are Regīna Ezera, Eduard Gufeld, Aileen Riggin, Ramiro de León Carpio, Conny Vandenbos, and Harold Russell. After him are Bob Hayes, Jeff Corey, Yuji Hyakutake, Anatoli Bashashkin, Jack Kruschen, and R. A. Lafferty.
1918 - 2000
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 208
1918 - 2012
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 209
1918 - 2016
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 210
1918 - 1990
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 211
1918 - 1992
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 212
1918 - 2003
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 213
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 214
1918 - 1997
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 215
1918 - 1977
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 216
1918 - 2016
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 217
1918 - 1999
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 218
1918 - 1984
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 219
1918 - 1980
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 220
1930 - 2002
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 214
1936 - 2002
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 215
1906 - 2002
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 216
1942 - 2002
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 217
1937 - 2002
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 218
1914 - 2002
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 219
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 220
1942 - 2002
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 221
1914 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 222
1950 - 2002
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 223
1924 - 2002
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 224
1922 - 2002
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 225
1914 - 2002
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 226
Among people born in India, Spike Milligan ranks 539 out of 1,227. Before him are Kamal Haasan (1954), Anita Desai (1937), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Mayawati (1956), George Fernandes (1930), and Feroz Khan (1939). After him are Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), Tom Kibble (1932), Jeetendra (1942), Shabana Azmi (1950), and Neerja Bhanot (1963).
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 533
1937 - Present
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 534
1914 - 1987
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 535
1956 - Present
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 536
1930 - 2019
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 537
1939 - 2009
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 538
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 539
1908 - 1974
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 540
1866 - 1911
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 541
1932 - 2016
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 542
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 543
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 544
1963 - 1986
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 545
Among actors born in India, Spike Milligan ranks 74. Before him are Kareena Kapoor (1980), Tanuja (1943), Naseeruddin Shah (1949), Farida Jalal (1949), Kamal Haasan (1954), and Feroz Khan (1939). After him are Jeetendra (1942), Shabana Azmi (1950), Ashok Kumar (1911), Freida Pinto (1984), Sivaji Ganesan (1928), and Nana Patekar (1951).
1980 - Present
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 68
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 69
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 70
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 71
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 72
1939 - 2009
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 73
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 74
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 75
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 76
1911 - 2001
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 77
1984 - Present
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 78
1928 - 2001
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 79
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 80