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Walt Disney

1901 - 1966

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Walter Elias Disney ( DIZ-nee; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned (22) and nominations (59) by an individual. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walt Disney has received more than 34,596,129 page views. His biography is available in 165 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 158 in 2019). Walt Disney is the most popular producer, the 36th most popular biography from United States (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular American Producer.

Walt Disney is most famous for founding the Walt Disney Company and being the creative force behind films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.

Memorability Metrics

  • 35M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 165

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Walt Disney ranks 1 out of 140. After him are Harvey Weinstein, Carlo Ponti, Rick Rubin, Dino De Laurentiis, René Angélil, Jerry Bruckheimer, Phil Spector, Simon Cowell, David O. Selznick, Aaron Spelling, and Toshio Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Walt Disney ranks 2. Before him is Hirohito. After him are Werner Heisenberg, Marlene Dietrich, Enrico Fermi, Leopold III of Belgium, Louis Armstrong, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Jacques Lacan, Sukarno, Fulgencio Batista, and Ngo Dinh Diem. Among people deceased in 1966, Walt Disney ranks 1. After him are André Breton, Buster Keaton, Alberto Giacometti, Anna Akhmatova, Georges Lemaître, Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, and Jean Arp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walt Disney ranks 36 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Franklin (1706), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Ronald Reagan (1911), Pocahontas (1595), George Washington (1732), and Ernest Hemingway (1899). After him are Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Aretha Franklin (1942), Al Pacino (1940), Robert De Niro (1943), and Janis Joplin (1943).

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Among PRODUCERS In United States

Among producers born in United States, Walt Disney ranks 1. After him are Harvey Weinstein (1952), Rick Rubin (1963), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943), Phil Spector (1939), David O. Selznick (1902), Aaron Spelling (1923), Gene Roddenberry (1921), Irving Thalberg (1899), Joel Silver (1952), Albert R. Broccoli (1909), and Darryl F. Zanuck (1902).

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