1950 - Today
Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films including the Back to the Future film series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, and The Polar Express. Silvestri also scored many other popular movies, including Predator, The Abyss, Father of the Bride, The Bodyguard, Eraser, The Parent Trap, Stuart Little, The Mummy Returns, Lilo & Stitch, The Wild, Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Silvestri has received more than 2,722,344 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Alan Silvestri is the 290th most popular composer (up from 336th in 2019), the 1,380th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,534th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Composer.
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Among composers, Alan Silvestri ranks 290 out of 1,216. Before him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Eduard Hanslick, Charles Ives, Julius Fučík, Nicolaus Bruhns, and Giovanni Battista Sammartini. After him are Jacques Arcadelt, Antonio Soler, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Gustave Charpentier, and Georges Auric.
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 284
1825 - 1904
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 285
1874 - 1954
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 286
1872 - 1916
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 287
1665 - 1697
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 288
1700 - 1775
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 289
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 290
1507 - 1568
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 291
1729 - 1783
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 292
1872 - 1958
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 293
1911 - 1975
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 294
1860 - 1956
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 295
1899 - 1983
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 296
Among people born in 1950, Alan Silvestri ranks 50. Before him are Grzegorz Lato, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, Nouri al-Maliki, Nora Roberts, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Ma Ying-jeou. After him are Janez Drnovšek, Cybill Shepherd, Sahle-Work Zewde, Jeffery Deaver, John Candy, and Jussi Adler-Olsen.
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 44
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 45
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 46
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 47
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 48
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 49
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 50
1950 - 2008
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 51
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 52
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 53
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 54
1950 - 1994
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 55
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 56
Among people born in United States, Alan Silvestri ranks 1,380 out of 18,182. Before him are Nettie Stevens (1861), Rex Stout (1886), David O. Selznick (1902), Conchata Ferrell (1943), Buck Henry (1930), and Annie Leibovitz (1949). After him are Rosemary Kennedy (1918), Paul Stanley (1952), Tom Ford (1961), Ethan Hawke (1970), Barnett Newman (1905), and Jane Wyman (1917).
1861 - 1912
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 1,374
1886 - 1975
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 1,375
1902 - 1965
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 1,376
1943 - 2020
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 1,377
1930 - 2020
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 1,378
1949 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 1,379
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 1,380
1918 - 2005
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 1,381
1952 - Present
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 1,382
1961 - Present
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 1,383
1970 - Present
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 1,384
1905 - 1970
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 1,385
1917 - 2007
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 1,386
Among composers born in United States, Alan Silvestri ranks 15. Before him are Samuel Barber (1910), Jerry Goldsmith (1929), James Horner (1953), Cole Porter (1891), Aaron Copland (1900), and Charles Ives (1874). After him are Bernard Herrmann (1911), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), Leroy Anderson (1908), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Alfred Newman (1900), and Stephen Sondheim (1930).
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 9
1929 - 2004
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 10
1953 - 2015
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 11
1891 - 1964
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 12
1900 - 1990
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 13
1874 - 1954
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 14
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 15
1911 - 1975
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 16
1937 - 2022
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 17
1908 - 1975
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 18
1922 - 2004
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 19
1900 - 1970
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 20
1930 - 2021
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 21