1915 - 1963
Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.Piaf's music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édith Piaf has received more than 7,216,256 page views. Her biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 118 in 2019). Édith Piaf is the 2nd most popular singer, the 30th most popular biography from France (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular French Singer.
Édith Piaf is most famous for her voice.
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Among singers, Édith Piaf ranks 2 out of 3,528. Before her are Elvis Presley. After her are Aretha Franklin, Cher, Janis Joplin, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Charles Aznavour, Dalida, Tina Turner, and Frank Sinatra.
1935 - 1977
HPI: 83.18
Rank: 1
1915 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 2
1942 - 2018
HPI: 81.57
Rank: 3
1946 - Present
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 4
1943 - 1970
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 5
1935 - 2007
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 6
1923 - 1977
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 7
1945 - Present
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 8
1924 - 2018
HPI: 76.87
Rank: 9
1933 - 1987
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 10
1939 - 2023
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 11
1915 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1915, Édith Piaf ranks 1. After her are Augusto Pinochet, Frank Sinatra, Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, Roland Barthes, Vasily Zaitsev, Moshe Dayan, David Rockefeller, Orson Welles, Paul Samuelson, and Eli Wallach. Among people deceased in 1963, Édith Piaf ranks 2. Before her is John F. Kennedy. After her are Pope John XXIII, Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Schuman, Tristan Tzara, Ngo Dinh Diem, and C. S. Lewis.
1915 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 1
1915 - 2006
HPI: 79.11
Rank: 2
1915 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 3
1915 - 2001
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 4
1915 - 1982
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 5
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
1915 - 1991
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 7
1915 - 1981
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 8
1915 - 2017
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 9
1915 - 1985
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 10
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 11
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1917 - 1963
HPI: 83.22
Rank: 1
1915 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 2
1881 - 1963
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 3
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 4
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 5
1882 - 1963
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 6
1894 - 1963
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 7
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 8
1886 - 1963
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 9
1896 - 1963
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 10
1901 - 1963
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 11
1898 - 1963
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Édith Piaf ranks 30 out of 6,011. Before her are Coco Chanel (1883), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), and Paul Gauguin (1848). After her are Louis XV of France (1710), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Henry IV of France (1553), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), and Pierre Curie (1859).
1883 - 1971
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 24
1839 - 1906
HPI: 82.12
Rank: 25
1869 - 1954
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 26
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 27
1743 - 1794
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 28
1848 - 1903
HPI: 81.79
Rank: 29
1915 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 30
1710 - 1774
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 31
1807 - 1882
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 32
1553 - 1610
HPI: 81.73
Rank: 33
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 34
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 35
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 36
Among singers born in France, Édith Piaf ranks 1. After her are Charles Aznavour (1924), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Carlos Gardel (1890), Johnny Hallyday (1943), France Gall (1947), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Françoise Hardy (1944), Maria Malibran (1808), Caterina Valente (1931), and Georges Brassens (1921).
1915 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 1
1924 - 2018
HPI: 76.87
Rank: 2
1928 - 1991
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 3
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 4
1890 - 1935
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 5
1943 - 2017
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 6
1947 - 2018
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 7
1974 - Present
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 9
1808 - 1836
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 11
1921 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 12