ACTOR

Vishnuvardhan

1950 - 2009

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Sampath Kumar (18 September 1950 – 30 December 2009), known by his stage name Vishnuvardhan, was an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Kannada cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam language films. Vishnuvardhan has a prolific career spanning over four decades, during which he has acted in more than 220 films. A popular cultural icon of Karnataka, and holds the status of a matinée idol among the Kannada diaspora. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vishnuvardhan has received more than 59,155 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Vishnuvardhan is the 9,135th most popular actor, the 1,026th most popular biography from India and the 184th most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 59k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vishnuvardhan ranks 9,135 out of 13,578. Before him are Uee, Fred Melamed, Brit Marling, Jessica Schwarz, Park So-jin, and Moira Lister. After him are Lisa Jakub, Louis Mandylor, Drake Bell, Raymond Hatton, Adele Jergens, and Peter Serafinowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Vishnuvardhan ranks 694. Before him are Daniel Benzali, Leonard Maltin, Tom Robinson, Rumyancho Goranov, Deniece Williams, and Debbie Stabenow. After him are John Sayles, Laura Ziskin, Pertti Ukkola, Lillian Watson, Karina Pankievich, and Shamil Khisamutdinov. Among people deceased in 2009, Vishnuvardhan ranks 397. Before him are Philip Carey, Arnold Stang, Billy Mays, Sitara Achakzai, Vic Crowe, and Johnny Kerr. After him are William Safire, Wendy Richard, Jane Randolph, Bina Rai, Sulim Yamadayev, and Horton Foote.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vishnuvardhan ranks 1,026 out of 1,861. Before him are Ebrahim Alkazi (1925), Monisha Kaltenborn (1971), Charles Correa (1930), Kishori Amonkar (1932), Rajpal Yadav (1971), and Mehboob Khan (1907). After him are Gita Gopinath (1971), Ravi Shankar Prasad (1954), Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (1927), Zubeida (1911), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1953), and Ravi Shastri (1962).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Vishnuvardhan ranks 184. Before him are Twinkle Khanna (1974), Sarika (1962), Simi Garewal (1947), Ruby Myers (1907), Durga Khote (1905), and Rajpal Yadav (1971). After him are Zubeida (1911), Mohanlal (1960), Mahesh Babu (1975), Meenakshi Seshadri (1963), Esther Victoria Abraham (1916), and Ravi Teja (1968).

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