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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 988,486 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alan Lomax is the 398th most popular businessperson (down from 333rd in 2019), the 5,250th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,894th in 2019) and the 129th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Alan Lomax ranks 398 out of 601Before him are Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, William Henry Conley, Ron Woodroof, Kim Dotcom, Biz Stone, and Eugène Lanti. After him are William Knox D'Arcy, Michael Eisner, Mikhail Fridman, S. Robson Walton, Christophe de Margerie, and Carl Icahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Alan Lomax ranks 159Before him are Sargent Shriver, Kurt Aland, Gozo Shioda, Amedeo Biavati, Derek Prince, and Regina Ghazaryan. After him are Leigh Brackett, Robert Motherwell, Hasse Ekman, Ferenc Sas, Fuad Abdurahmanov, and Ann Sheridan. Among people deceased in 2002, Alan Lomax ranks 173Before him are Marcel Kint, Said Belqola, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Rudolf Augstein, Antony C. Sutton, and Robert Urich. After him are Tinus Osendarp, André Clot, Martti Miettunen, Tita Merello, Stephen E. Ambrose, and Lawrence Tierney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Lomax ranks 5,250 out of 18,182Before him are Janet Margolin (1943), Harry Partch (1901), Joan Blondell (1906), Mona Simpson (1957), Beah Richards (1920), and Richard Estes (1932). After him are Ginger Lynn (1962), Glenn Danzig (1955), Jack Nitzsche (1937), Albert Brooks (1947), Joshua Logan (1908), and Kathryn Adams (1893).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Alan Lomax ranks 129Before him are Brendan Eich (1961), Gene Haas (1952), Jim Walton (1948), William Henry Conley (1840), Ron Woodroof (1950), and Biz Stone (1974). After him are Michael Eisner (1942), S. Robson Walton (1944), Carl Icahn (1936), Samuel Brannan (1819), Muhtar Kent (1952), and David Geffen (1943).