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Walt Disney

1901 - 1966

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walt Disney has received more than 21,691,029 page views. His biography is available in 150 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Walt Disney is the most popular producer, the 27th most popular biography from United States (down from 26th in 2019) and the most popular American Producer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 22M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 86.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 150

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Walt Disney ranks 1 out of 89. After him are Harvey Weinstein, Carlo Ponti, Dino De Laurentiis, Simon Cowell, Jerry Bruckheimer, Phil Spector, Rick Rubin, Aaron Spelling, David O. Selznick, Gene Roddenberry, and René Angélil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Walt Disney ranks 1. After him are Hirohito, Werner Heisenberg, Louis Armstrong, Marlene Dietrich, Enrico Fermi, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Jacques Lacan, Linus Pauling, Sukarno, Rudolf Höss, and Clark Gable. Among people deceased in 1966, Walt Disney ranks 1. After him are André Breton, Buster Keaton, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Lemaître, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Korolev, Jean Arp, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Montgomery Clift, and Giuseppe Farina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walt Disney ranks 27 out of 15,968. Before him are Mark Twain (1835), Pocahontas (1595), Ronald Reagan (1911), Bruce Lee (1940), Martin Scorsese (1942), and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882). After him are James K. Polk (1795), Michael Jackson (1958), Clint Eastwood (1930), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Charles Lindbergh (1902), and Al Pacino (1940).

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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), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943), Phil Spector (1939), Rick Rubin (1963), Aaron Spelling (1923), David O. Selznick (1902), Gene Roddenberry (1921), Albert R. Broccoli (1909), Joel Silver (1952), Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), and Irving Thalberg (1899).

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