MUSICIAN

Bert Jansch

1943 - 2011

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Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bert Jansch has received more than 913,560 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Bert Jansch is the 1,298th most popular musician (down from 1,208th in 2019), the 3,421st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,198th in 2019) and the 205th most popular British Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Bert Jansch ranks 1,298 out of 3,175. Before him are Lee Kerslake, Sven Väth, Jim Keltner, Randy Brecker, Andy Bown, and Andrei Gavrilov. After him are Joe Jackson, Adrian Vandenberg, James Jamerson, Mishary Rashid Alafasy, Steve Jordan, and Lou Donaldson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Bert Jansch ranks 440. Before him are Peter Norton, Charles Hallahan, Shinobu Sekine, Susan Clark, Rick Danko, and Catherine Cesarsky. After him are Wolfgang Nordwig, Masatoshi Shima, Lucius Shepard, Brian Hyland, Xaviera Hollander, and Arnaldo Cézar Coelho. Among people deceased in 2011, Bert Jansch ranks 295. Before him are Park Wan-suh, Bernard Nathanson, Mikhail Kozakov, Ferenc Szojka, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, and Michael Sarrazin. After him are Mark Blaug, Stig Sundqvist, Robert Ettinger, John Shalikashvili, Aleksandar Petaković, and Finn Helgesen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bert Jansch ranks 3,421 out of 8,785. Before him are Edith Sitwell (1887), Andy Bown (1946), Walter Burley (1275), Al Atkins (1947), Stanley Morison (1889), and William Tenn (1920). After him are Brian Lumley (1937), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), John O. Westwood (1805), Joe Jackson (1954), and Wilfred Baddeley (1872).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Bert Jansch ranks 205. Before him are Lita Ford (1958), Nigel Kennedy (1956), Trevor Bolder (1950), Peter Grant (1935), Lee Kerslake (1947), and Andy Bown (1946). After him are Joe Jackson (1954), Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Neil Murray (1950), John Mayhew (1947), Bernard Sumner (1956), and Steve Hogarth (1956).

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