1811 - 1896
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz tɔmɑ]; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ambroise Thomas has received more than 165,833 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ambroise Thomas is the 220th most popular composer (up from 255th in 2019), the 1,012th most popular biography from France (up from 1,129th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Composer.
Ambroise Thomas is most famous for his opera Mignon, which he composed in 1866.
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Among composers, Ambroise Thomas ranks 220 out of 1,216. Before him are Ernest Chausson, Josef Suk, James Horner, Niccolò Piccinni, Charles-Marie Widor, and François-Joseph Gossec. After him are Jacob Obrecht, Sofia Gubaidulina, Pietro Locatelli, Alfred Schnittke, Anton Reicha, and Lili Boulanger.
1855 - 1899
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 214
1874 - 1935
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 215
1953 - 2015
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 216
1728 - 1800
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 217
1844 - 1937
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 218
1734 - 1829
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 219
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 220
1457 - 1505
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 221
1931 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 222
1695 - 1764
HPI: 62.03
Rank: 223
1934 - 1998
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 224
1770 - 1836
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 225
1893 - 1918
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 226
Among people born in 1811, Ambroise Thomas ranks 14. Before him are William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isaac Singer, Louis Blanc, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Vissarion Belinsky. After him are Elisha Otis, François Achille Bazaine, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Zeng Guofan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Jón Sigurðsson. Among people deceased in 1896, Ambroise Thomas ranks 17. Before him are Ivar Aasen, John Everett Millais, H. H. Holmes, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Edmond de Goncourt, and José Rizal. After him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, John Langdon Down, Richard Avenarius, Frederic Leighton, and Prince Henry of Battenberg.
1811 - 1863
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 8
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 9
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 10
1811 - 1882
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 11
1811 - 1890
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 12
1811 - 1848
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 13
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 14
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 15
1811 - 1888
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 16
1811 - 1885
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 17
1811 - 1872
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 18
1811 - 1888
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 19
1811 - 1879
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 20
1813 - 1896
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 11
1829 - 1896
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 12
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 13
1831 - 1896
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 14
1822 - 1896
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 15
1861 - 1896
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 16
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 17
1815 - 1896
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 18
1814 - 1896
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 19
1828 - 1896
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 20
1843 - 1896
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 21
1830 - 1896
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 22
1858 - 1896
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 23
Among people born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 1,012 out of 6,011. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), Claude of France (1547), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), and Clotilde of France (1759). After him are Carole Bouquet (1957), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Maurice Denis (1870), Joseph Liouville (1809), Abel Gance (1889), and Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895).
1656 - 1708
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 1,006
1451 - 1508
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 1,007
1547 - 1575
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 1,008
1865 - 1963
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 1,009
1813 - 1888
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 1,010
1759 - 1802
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 1,011
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 1,012
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 1,013
1851 - 1925
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 1,014
1870 - 1943
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 1,015
1809 - 1882
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 1,016
1889 - 1981
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 1,017
1895 - 1964
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 1,018
Among composers born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 36. Before him are Marin Marais (1656), Pauline Viardot (1821), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Francis Lai (1932), Ernest Chausson (1855), and Charles-Marie Widor (1844). After him are Lili Boulanger (1893), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Fromental Halévy (1799), Albert Roussel (1869), and Jacques Ibert (1890).
1656 - 1728
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 30
1821 - 1910
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 31
1291 - 1361
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 32
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 33
1855 - 1899
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 34
1844 - 1937
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 35
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 36
1893 - 1918
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 37
1910 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 38
1841 - 1894
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 39
1799 - 1862
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 40
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 41
1890 - 1962
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 42