COMPOSER

Danny Elfman

1953 - Today

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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Danny Elfman has received more than 12,727,974 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Danny Elfman is the 517th most popular composer (down from 489th in 2019), the 2,400th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,303rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Danny Elfman ranks 517 out of 1,451. Before him are Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Christian Sinding, Alexandre Guilmant, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Carmine Coppola, and Carl Friedrich Zelter. After him are Jacob Clemens non Papa, Francesco Maria Veracini, Curt Sachs, Sebastián Iradier, Manos Hatzidakis, and Fredrik Pacius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Danny Elfman ranks 99. Before him are Hussein Arnous, Ivo Sanader, William E. Moerner, Manfred Kaltz, Jerome Powell, and Teresa Orlowski. After him are Ulrich Mühe, Jeb Bush, Aleksandr Akimov, Nan Goldin, Rick Moranis, and James Remar.

Others Born in 1953

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 2,400 out of 20,380. Before him are Wilma Rudolph (1940), John Connally (1917), Sam Rockwell (1968), Katey Sagal (1954), Nora Ephron (1941), and Broncho Billy Anderson (1880). After him are Chris Evans (1981), Robert Brout (1928), Scott McKenzie (1939), Ed Sullivan (1901), Larry Fink (1952), and Asa Akira (1986).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 26. Before him are James Newton Howard (1951), Bill Conti (1942), Leroy Anderson (1908), Terry Riley (1935), John Adams (1947), and Carmine Coppola (1910). After him are Michael Kamen (1948), Paul Bowles (1910), George Antheil (1900), Ernest Guiraud (1837), Stephen Sondheim (1930), and Basil Poledouris (1945).

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