Bob Hope

Bob Hope is one of those figures whose sheer endurance becomes the story. Nearly eighty years in the business, fluent across vaudeville, radio, film and television, he outlived entire formats and kept finding the joke. But what moves me most is the USO work. Plenty of stars send well wishes; he got on planes and stood in front of homesick troops in actual danger zones, year after year. That choice tells you who he was. The medals are impressive, yet I think his real legacy is simpler: he understood that making people laugh during hard times is a kind of service, and he showed up.

Name (English)

Bob Hope

Name (Japanese)

ボブ・ホープ

Reading

ぼぶ・ほーぷ

Born

May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Origin

United Kingdom

Occupation

comedian / actor / singer / screenwriter / television actor

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Knight Grand Officer of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
• Peabody Awards
• National Medal of Arts
• 1969 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Knight of St. Sylvester
• 1960 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
• Ronald Reagan Freedom Award
• Library of Congress Living Legend

• Official sitehttp://www.bobhope.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Hope
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94081

Tags

• comedian
• actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.