1929 - Today
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benny Golson has received more than 653,611 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Benny Golson is the 636th most popular musician (down from 536th in 2019), the 3,305th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,782nd in 2019) and the 197th most popular American Musician.
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Among musicians, Benny Golson ranks 636 out of 2,662. Before him are Axel Rudi Pell, Thom Yorke, Napoleon Orda, Suzanne Vega, K. K. Downing, and Max Roach. After him are Felix Blumenfeld, Alan Wilson, Louis Prima, Gaspara Stampa, Steve Gadd, and Mordechai Gebirtig.
1960 - Present
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 630
1968 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 631
1807 - 1883
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 632
1959 - Present
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 633
1951 - Present
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 634
1924 - 2007
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 635
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 636
1863 - 1931
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 637
1943 - 1970
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 638
1910 - 1978
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 639
1523 - 1554
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 640
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 641
1877 - 1942
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 642
Among people born in 1929, Benny Golson ranks 183. Before him are James Hong, Andre Gunder Frank, Rafael Eitan, Nargis, Peter Yates, and Aleksandra Pakhmutova. After him are Gastone Moschin, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Giacomo Capuzzi, David Doyle, Tayeb Salih, and Anna Walentynowicz.
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 177
1929 - 2005
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 178
1929 - 2004
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 179
1929 - 1981
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 180
1929 - 2011
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 181
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 182
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 183
1929 - 2017
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 184
1929 - 1990
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 185
1929 - 2021
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 186
1929 - 1997
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 187
1929 - 2009
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 188
1929 - 2010
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 189
Among people born in United States, Benny Golson ranks 3,305 out of 18,182. Before him are David Lee Roth (1954), John Paine (1870), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Tom Holland (1943), and Doris Hart (1925). After him are Marian Anderson (1897), Crispin Glover (1964), Garret Hobart (1844), E. C. Segar (1894), Alan Wilson (1943), and Ken Jenkins (1940).
1954 - Present
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 3,299
1870 - 1951
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 3,300
1921 - 1966
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 3,301
1905 - 1977
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 3,302
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 3,303
1925 - 2015
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 3,304
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 3,305
1897 - 1993
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 3,306
1964 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 3,307
1844 - 1899
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 3,308
1894 - 1938
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 3,309
1943 - 1970
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 3,310
1940 - Present
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 3,311
Among musicians born in United States, Benny Golson ranks 197. Before him are Kenny Clarke (1914), Horace Silver (1928), Peter Cetera (1944), Ric Ocasek (1949), Suzanne Vega (1959), and Max Roach (1924). After him are Alan Wilson (1943), Louis Prima (1910), Steve Gadd (1945), McCoy Tyner (1938), Ruggiero Ricci (1918), and Ron Carter (1937).
1914 - 1985
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 191
1928 - 2014
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 192
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 193
1949 - 2019
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 194
1959 - Present
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 195
1924 - 2007
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 196
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 197
1943 - 1970
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 198
1910 - 1978
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 199
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 200
1938 - 2020
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 201
1918 - 2012
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 202
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 203