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Will Rogers

1879 - 1935

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Will Rogers has received more than 3,840,191 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Will Rogers is the 3,633rd most popular actor (down from 2,390th in 2019), the 5,566th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,956th in 2019) and the 1,712th most popular American Actor.

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  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Will Rogers ranks 3,633 out of 9,996Before him are Johnny Knoxville, Bradford Dillman, Janet McTeer, Ben Mendelsohn, Lee Meriwether, and Matthias Schweighöfer. After him are Theo James, Mark Addy, Paul Meurisse, Warren Clarke, Momoe Yamaguchi, and Clara Calamai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Will Rogers ranks 141Before him are Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Martin Mutschmann, Eugène Lanti, Shinobu Ishihara, Cyril Scott, and Wladimir Aïtoff. After him are Ellen Gleditsch, Joseph Avenol, Rafael Erich, Marion Jones Farquhar, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, and Agnes Miegel. Among people deceased in 1935, Will Rogers ranks 98Before him are Tsubouchi Shōyō, Richard Sheldon, Harald Sohlberg, Emil Młynarski, Milman Parry, and Hans Tropsch. After him are John Hartley, Edwin Flack, Daniel Salamanca Urey, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Heinrich Schenker, and Albert Ayat.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Will Rogers ranks 5,566 out of 18,182Before him are Alvin Ailey (1931), Lewis Powell (1844), Barbara Morgan (1951), Lee Meriwether (1935), Ancel Keys (1904), and Stan Kenton (1911). After him are Tony Accardo (1906), Ray Allen (1975), Daniel Webster (1782), Zane Grey (1872), Robert Towne (1934), and Wendell Willkie (1892).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Will Rogers ranks 1,712Before him are Tyler Perry (1969), Susanna Hoffs (1959), Leighton Meester (1986), Johnny Knoxville (1971), Bradford Dillman (1930), and Lee Meriwether (1935). After him are Bonnie Bartlett (1929), John Randolph (1915), Richard Lynch (1940), Richard Quine (1920), David Proval (1942), and John Drew Barrymore (1932).

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