1953 - Today
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead singer 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 11,622,387 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Danny Elfman is the 489th most popular composer (up from 496th in 2019), the 2,305th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,315th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Composer.
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Among composers, Danny Elfman ranks 489 out of 1,216. Before him are Vítězslav Novák, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Hans Pfitzner, Franz Xaver Richter, Reinhard Keiser, and Robert Stolz. After him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Luis Bacalov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Frederick Delius, Alexandre Tansman, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach.
1870 - 1949
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 483
1871 - 1927
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 484
1869 - 1949
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 485
1709 - 1789
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 486
1674 - 1739
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 487
1880 - 1975
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 488
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 489
1715 - 1777
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 490
1933 - 2017
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 491
1843 - 1922
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 492
1862 - 1934
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 493
1897 - 1986
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 494
1759 - 1845
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 495
Among people born in 1953, Danny Elfman ranks 83. Before him are Hans Krankl, Loalwa Braz, Dave Evans, Mary Steenburgen, Najib Razak, and András Schiff. After him are Claudio Gentile, Alpha Blondy, Nanni Moretti, Đorđe Balašević, Aleksandr Akimov, and Dominique de Villepin.
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 77
1953 - 2017
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 78
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 79
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 80
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 81
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 82
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 83
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 84
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 85
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 86
1953 - 2021
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 87
1953 - 1986
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 88
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 89
Among people born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 2,305 out of 18,182. Before him are Bernard Malamud (1914), Jim Caviezel (1968), Selena Gomez (1992), William Sadler (1950), Van Heflin (1908), and Brad Dexter (1917). After him are Woody Strode (1914), LP (1981), Chad Hurley (1977), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Donald Judd (1928), and John Phillips (1935).
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 2,299
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 2,300
1992 - Present
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 2,301
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 2,302
1908 - 1971
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 2,303
1917 - 2002
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 2,304
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 2,305
1914 - 1994
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 2,306
1981 - Present
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 2,307
1977 - Present
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 2,308
1918 - 2009
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 2,309
1928 - 1994
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 2,310
1935 - 2001
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 2,311
Among composers born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 29. Before him are Michael Kamen (1948), Richard Rodgers (1902), George Crumb (1929), Bill Conti (1942), Paul Bowles (1910), and James Newton Howard (1951). After him are Stephen Foster (1826), John Adams (1947), George Antheil (1900), Morton Feldman (1926), Carmine Coppola (1910), and Jonathan Larson (1960).
1948 - 2003
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 23
1902 - 1979
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 24
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 25
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 26
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 27
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 28
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 29
1826 - 1864
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 30
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 31
1900 - 1959
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 32
1926 - 1987
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 33
1910 - 1991
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 34
1960 - 1996
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 35