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Paul Newman

1925 - 2008

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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. Along with his Best Actor Academy Award win, Newman also received two additional Oscars, both meritorious: the Academy Honorary Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in Shaker Heights, the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of Saint George and the Dragon at the Cleveland Play House. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Newman is the 44th most popular actor (up from 84th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from United States (up from 168th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Actor.

Paul Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which all after-tax profits are given to charity.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Paul Newman ranks 44 out of 13,578. Before him are Bud Spencer, Bruce Willis, Marcello Mastroianni, Gérard Depardieu, Nicolas Cage, and Debbie Reynolds. After him are Charles Bronson, Gina Lollobrigida, Terence Hill, Michael Douglas, Christopher Lee, and Shah Rukh Khan.

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Among people born in 1925, Paul Newman ranks 7. Before him are Malcolm X, Margaret Thatcher, Pol Pot, Barbara Bush, Richard Burton, and B.B. King. After him are Yukio Mishima, Mahathir Mohamad, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Edwards, Gilles Deleuze, and Alija Izetbegović. Among people deceased in 2008, Paul Newman ranks 2. Before him is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. After him are Yves Saint Laurent, Suharto, Bobby Fischer, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Edmund Hillary, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Newman ranks 124 out of 20,380. Before him are Grace Hopper (1906), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Nicolas Cage (1964), Debbie Reynolds (1932), and Dr. Seuss (1904). After him are Woodrow Wilson (1856), Gerald Ford (1913), Charles Bronson (1921), D. W. Griffith (1875), Isadora Duncan (1877), and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Paul Newman ranks 18. Before him are Gene Hackman (1930), Morgan Freeman (1937), Jack Nicholson (1937), Dustin Hoffman (1937), Nicolas Cage (1964), and Debbie Reynolds (1932). After him are Charles Bronson (1921), Michael Douglas (1944), Harrison Ford (1942), Chuck Norris (1940), Meryl Streep (1949), and Will Smith (1968).

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