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Alan Lomax

1915 - 2002

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Alan Lomax (; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was a musician, folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Lomax has received more than 1,111,849 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Alan Lomax is the 445th most popular businessperson (down from 398th in 2019), the 5,579th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,238th in 2019) and the 138th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Alan Lomax ranks 445 out of 847. Before him are Muhtar Kent, Pierre Veyron, Fred Karno, Michael Dell, Rina Zaripova, and Henry Clay Frick. After him are Eduardo Saverin, Robert Durst, Walter Wild, Michael Eisner, Anders Hejlsberg, and Émile Étienne Guimet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Alan Lomax ranks 166. Before him are Alykul Osmonov, Garrett Hardin, Hasse Ekman, Derek Prince, Edmond Leburton, and Leigh Brackett. After him are Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Harry Morgan, John C. Lilly, Ann Sheridan, Kenneth Arnold, and Johannes Kotkas. Among people deceased in 2002, Alan Lomax ranks 185. Before him are Gabrielle Wittkop, Morihiro Saito, Richard Helms, Abdel Rahman Badawi, Marcel Kint, and Mikhail Devyataev. After him are Milton Berle, Luise Rinser, Tita Merello, Lou Thesz, Kristen Nygaard, and Desmond Hoyte.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Lomax ranks 5,579 out of 20,380. Before him are Jude Ciccolella (1947), Thomas H. Ince (1880), Arthur Laffer (1940), Lori Singer (1957), Charles Martin Smith (1953), and Mary Blair (1911). After him are Grace Sherwood (1660), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Eric Adams (1960), Paul Butterfield (1942), William H. Prescott (1796), and David Proval (1942).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Alan Lomax ranks 138. Before him are Suge Knight (1965), Peter Lynch (1944), James Buchanan Duke (1856), Muhtar Kent (1952), Michael Dell (1965), and Henry Clay Frick (1849). After him are Robert Durst (1943), Michael Eisner (1942), Chad Hurley (1977), Brendan Eich (1961), Carl Icahn (1936), and Lawrence Roberts (1937).

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