ACTOR

Wendy O. Williams

1949 - 1998

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Wendy Orlean Williams (May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998) was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun, and chainsawing guitars. Performing her own stunts in videos, she often sported a mohawk hairstyle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wendy O. Williams has received more than 2,796,894 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Wendy O. Williams is the 5,117th most popular actor (down from 3,570th in 2019), the 7,456th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,464th in 2019) and the 2,304th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Wendy O. Williams ranks 5,117 out of 13,578. Before her are Skeet Ulrich, Lee Sung-kyung, Albrecht Becker, Nina Ananiashvili, Dylan Walsh, and Gladys George. After her are H. B. Warner, Edie Adams, Alex Kingston, María Corda, Margarita Xhepa, and Saoirse Ronan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Wendy O. Williams ranks 489. Before her are Nasser Hejazi, Noli de Castro, Loretta Devine, Debra Monk, Mitsunori Fujiguchi, and Fred Frith. After her are Venkaiah Naidu, Michael Bleekemolen, Karel Loprais, Marek Jędraszewski, Lyubov Polishchuk, and Jamaica Kincaid. Among people deceased in 1998, Wendy O. Williams ranks 236. Before her are Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Ferenc Sidó, James Algar, Patricia Hayes, Giovanni Valetti, and Betty Carter. After her are Alice Faye, Charles Lang, André Chorda, Jane Bell, Leo Buscaglia, and Bella Abzug.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wendy O. Williams ranks 7,456 out of 20,380. Before her are John Marin (1870), Leona Woods (1919), Wayne Newton (1942), Nancy Wilson (1954), Dylan Walsh (1963), and Gladys George (1904). After her are Edie Adams (1927), Michael Behe (1952), Hassler Whitney (1907), Philip Agee (1935), Dave Bing (1943), and Saoirse Ronan (1994).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Wendy O. Williams ranks 2,304. Before her are James Stacy (1936), Beth Broderick (1959), Bruce Kirby (1925), Robert Harron (1893), Dylan Walsh (1963), and Gladys George (1904). After her are Edie Adams (1927), Saoirse Ronan (1994), David Selby (1941), Karen Fukuhara (1992), Jaimie Alexander (1984), and Lola Falana (1942).

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