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Umm Kulthum

1898 - 1975

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Umm Kulthum (Arabic: أم كلثوم; 4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Star of the Orient'). Immensely popular throughout the Arab World, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Umm Kulthum has received more than 1,907,319 page views. Her biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Umm Kulthum is the 25th most popular singer (up from 28th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 45th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Singer.

Umm Kulthum was a singer from Egypt who is most famous for her voice and her songs.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Umm Kulthum ranks 25 out of 4,381. Before her are Joan Baez, Demis Roussos, Tupac Shakur, Enrico Caruso, Patti Smith, and Montserrat Caballé. After her are Brian Johnson, Farinelli, Serge Gainsbourg, Cesária Évora, Whitney Houston, and Johnny Cash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Umm Kulthum ranks 9. Before her are René Magritte, Alvar Aalto, Erich Maria Remarque, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, and Sergei Eisenstein. After her are M. C. Escher, Zhou Enlai, William James Sidis, Stefania Turkewich, Herbert Marcuse, and George Gershwin. Among people deceased in 1975, Umm Kulthum ranks 7. Before her are Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Chiang Kai-shek, Ivo Andrić, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. After her are Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Umm Kulthum ranks 39 out of 642. Before her are Diophantus (201), Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Ankhesenamun (-1347), Omar Sharif (1932), Horemheb (-1319), and Menkaure (-2001). After her are Caesarion (-47), Ramesses I (-1300), Cyril of Alexandria (376), Ahmose I (-1560), Sneferu (-2700), and Ramesses III (-1217).

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Among SINGERS In Egypt

Among singers born in Egypt, Umm Kulthum ranks 3. Before her are Dalida (1933), and Demis Roussos (1946). After her are Georges Moustaki (1934), Claude François (1939), Mohammed Abdel Wahab (1901), Amr Diab (1961), Leila Mourad (1918), Sayed Darwish (1892), Gohar Gasparyan (1924), Richard Anthony (1938), and Guy Béart (1930).

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