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Alexandre Desplat

1961 - Today

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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades throughout his career spanning over four decades, including, two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Desplat has received more than 1,981,594 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Alexandre Desplat is the 506th most popular composer (up from 582nd in 2019), the 2,128th most popular biography from France (up from 2,389th in 2019) and the 75th most popular French Composer.

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  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexandre Desplat ranks 506 out of 1,451. Before him are John Adams, Guillaume Lekeu, Vasily Kalinnikov, Maddalena Casulana, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, and Ethel Smyth. After him are Alexandre Tansman, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Peter Cornelius, Joachim Raff, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, and Christian Sinding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Alexandre Desplat ranks 68. Before him are Erwin Koeman, Martin Gore, Luis de la Fuente, Íngrid Betancourt, Wade Williams, and Guido Buchwald. After him are Carol W. Greider, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Ghislaine Maxwell, Iain Glen, Jared Harris, and Tite.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Desplat ranks 2,128 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Hadot (1922), Philippe de Gaulle (1921), Edmond Locard (1877), Tino Rossi (1907), Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699), and Marguerite Long (1874). After him are François Blondel (1618), Claude Berri (1934), François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616), Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1637), Jacques Doillon (1944), and Alexandre Ribot (1842).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Alexandre Desplat ranks 75. Before him are Mélanie Bonis (1858), Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Maurice Duruflé (1902), and Florent Schmitt (1870). After him are Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Hervé (1825), Edgard Varèse (1883), Louis Couperin (1626), and Jean-François Le Sueur (1760).

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