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Thespis

600 BC - 560 BC

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His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Thespis is the 500th most popular actor (down from 291st in 2024), the 197th most popular biography from Greece (down from 135th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Greek Actor.

Thespis is most famous for being the first person to act in a play.

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Among Actors

Among actors, Thespis ranks 500 out of 13,578Before him are Anne Baxter, John Rhys-Davies, William Shatner, Albert Finney, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Charlie Sheen. After him are Juliette Gréco, René Auberjonois, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joe Morton, Jonathan Banks, and Stanley Tucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Thespis ranks 28Before him are Hippias, Lucius Junius Brutus, Hipparchus, Chilon of Sparta, Cleomenes I, and Alexander I of Macedon. After him are Aristagoras, Publius Valerius Publicola, Neriglissar, Ibycus, Gelon, and Hiero I of Syracuse. Among people deceased in 560 BC, Thespis ranks 3Before him are Alcaeus of Mytilene, and Alyattes of Lydia. After him are Myia, Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, and Dorieus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Thespis ranks 197 out of NaNBefore him are Costa-Gavras (1933), Hipparchia of Maroneia (-350), Herodes Atticus (101), Aenesidemus (-80), Cleobulus (-590), and Meton of Athens (-500). After him are Agathias (536), Theophano (941), Pleistarchus (-500), Brasidas (-500), Callisthenes (-360), and Gazi Husrev-beg (1480).

Among Actors In Greece

Among actors born in Greece, Thespis ranks 3Before him are Irene Papas (1929), and Melina Mercouri (1920). After him are Katina Paxinou (1900), John Aniston (1933), Aliki Vougiouklaki (1934), Carl Anderson (1945), Skeet Ulrich (1970), Adele Neuhauser (1959), Ariane Labed (1984), Haruna Ikezawa (1975), and Julia Alexandratou (1985).

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