MUSICIAN

A. R. Rahman

1966 - Today

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Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) also known by the initialism ARR is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in international cinema. He is a recipient of six National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards, and eighteen Filmfare Awards South. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. R. Rahman has received more than 18,559,564 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). A. R. Rahman is the 1,777th most popular musician (up from 1,885th in 2019), the 753rd most popular biography from India (down from 706th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Musician.

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  • 7.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, A. R. Rahman ranks 1,777 out of 3,175Before him are Charles Lloyd, Gary Holt, Big Walter Horton, Clarence White, Cal Tjader, and Boris Brejcha. After him are Andraé Crouch, Dave Edmunds, Earl Wild, Laurent Garnier, Mel Tormé, and Tomoyasu Hotei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, A. R. Rahman ranks 291Before him are Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Tyler Mane, Hilarion, Juhan Parts, Pierre Thorsson, and Mauro Picotto. After him are Laurent Garnier, Mary Stuart Masterson, Zlatko Yankov, Scott Derrickson, Lucrecia Martel, and Randy Barnes.

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In India

Among people born in India, A. R. Rahman ranks 753 out of 1,861Before him are Javed Akhtar (1945), Dean Mahomed (1759), Subramanian Swamy (1939), John Shepherd-Barron (1925), Sumitra Mahajan (1943), and Nambi Narayanan (1941). After him are Kirron Kher (1955), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Sunil Gavaskar (1949), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), and Raj Reddy (1937).

Among MUSICIANS In India

Among musicians born in India, A. R. Rahman ranks 14Before him are Ilaiyaraaja (1943), Barry Hay (1948), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), Christian Zacharias (1950), Trilok Gurtu (1951), and Mehdi Hassan (1927). After him are M. Balamuralikrishna (1930), Amjad Ali Khan (1945), Salil Chowdhury (1925), Teejan Bai (1956), Naushad (1919), and Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (1927).