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Angus Young

1955 - Today

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Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk. Young was ranked 38th in the 2023 edition of Rolling Stone's 250 greatest guitarists of all time list. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angus Young has received more than 10,362,955 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. Angus Young is the 98th most popular musician (down from 95th in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 425th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Musician.

Angus Young is most famous for being the lead guitarist and co-founder of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

Memorability Metrics

  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Angus Young ranks 98 out of 3,175. Before him are Charlie Parker, David Oistrakh, Alice Cooper, Dschinghis Khan, Chet Baker, and Frank Farian. After him are Quincy Jones, Lemmy, John Coltrane, Paul Mauriat, Gheorghe Zamfir, and Ludovico Einaudi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Angus Young ranks 21. Before him are Willem Dafoe, Isabelle Adjani, Guillermo Lasso, Sergey Shoygu, Li Keqiang, and Akira Toriyama. After him are Mo Yan, Ludovico Einaudi, Héctor Cúper, Olga Korbut, Valery Gerasimov, and Whoopi Goldberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Angus Young ranks 386 out of 8,785. Before him are Mordred (null), Christian de Duve (1917), Pelagius (360), Henry Morgan (1635), William Crookes (1832), and John Boyd Dunlop (1840). After him are Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Robert Burns (1759), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Lemmy (1945), Thomas Cromwell (1485), and Oswald Mosley (1896).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Angus Young ranks 27. Before him are John Deacon (1951), Charlie Watts (1941), Ritchie Blackmore (1945), Robert Fripp (1946), Jon Lord (1941), and Richard Wright (1943). After him are Lemmy (1945), John Bonham (1948), Sid Vicious (1957), Nick Mason (1944), John Dowland (1563), and Gary Moore (1952).

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