PRESENTER

Terry Wogan

1938 - 2016

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Sir Michael Terence Wogan (; 3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016) was an Irish–British radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career. Between 1993 and his semi-retirement in December 2009, his BBC Radio 2 weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan regularly drew an estimated eight million listeners. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terry Wogan has received more than 4,475,007 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Terry Wogan is the 66th most popular presenter (up from 67th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 345th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Presenter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRESENTERS

Among presenters, Terry Wogan ranks 66 out of 143. Before him are Ryan Dunn, Ana Rosa Quintana, Jesse James, Jerry Doyle, Pilar Rubio, and Al Franken. After him are Sergey Dorenko, Drew Carey, Erez Tal, Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Demento, and Gene Siskel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Terry Wogan ranks 545. Before him are Jimmy Carl Black, Indira Nath, Neville Lederle, Wiesław Maniak, Abel Laudonio, and Napoleon Chagnon. After him are Dawn Wells, Peter Jennings, Sultan Rahi, Salvatore Morale, Achim Müller, and Robert Hughes. Among people deceased in 2016, Terry Wogan ranks 504. Before him are Erwin Hahn, Ernestine Anderson, Andrew Sachs, Joseph Mascolo, Ashot Anastasian, and Anatoli Isayev. After him are Tommy Kono, Fyvush Finkel, Yngve Brodd, Riki Sorsa, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and Jo Cox.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Terry Wogan ranks 313 out of 549. Before him are Anne Buttimer (1938), Christy Moore (1945), Róisín Murphy (1973), Cecelia Ahern (1981), Frank Harris (1856), and Thomas Romney Robinson (1792). After him are Dave Allen (1936), Mary Ward (1827), Joseph Plunkett (1887), Barry Keoghan (1992), Nicky Byrne (1978), and Damien Rice (1973).

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Among PRESENTERS In Ireland

Among presenters born in Ireland, Terry Wogan ranks 1. 

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