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Pantheon found that Ms. Lavigne is featured on 103 different language editions of Wikipedia, and that those various Wikipedia pages have been viewed an incredible 43,963,702 times since 2008 — an average of 16 page views per minute for five straight years.

The sheer tonnage of page views, along with some other considerations, made the 29-year-old Ms. Lavigne the most famous Canadian, the fourth most famous human being born since 1980 and history’s sixth most popular musician, behind John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson.

When weighed against every human being ever born since the dawn of civilization, Pantheon gave Ms. Lavigne the 387th spot, putting her in the same league as Ronald Reagan, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and Queen Elizabeth II.

To qualify for Pantheon consideration, individuals need to boast a Wikipedia page in 25 different languages — an honour for which only 112 Canadians qualified.

In addition to raw page views, researchers also tried to control for Wikipedia’s “English Bias” by giving more weight to an individual’s appeal among non-English speakers.

Pantheon calculations also noted the consistency of an individual’s fame in order to weed out celebrities “associated with periods of intense, temporary public attention,” researcher Amy Yu told the National Post by email.

The second-ranked Canuck, Jim Carrey, is only mentioned on 73 non-English editions of Wikipedia, and racked up nine million fewer page views than Ms. Lavigne.