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David Arnold

1962 - Today

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David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997-2008), as well as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Four Brothers (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. For Independence Day, he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television, and for Sherlock, he and co-composer Michael Price won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of "His Last Vow", the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series Good Omens (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Arnold has received more than 960,676 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). David Arnold is the 1,305th most popular composer (down from 1,162nd in 2019), the 4,641st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,655th in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, David Arnold ranks 1,305 out of 1,451. Before him are Airat Ichmouratov, Howard Hanson, George Fenton, Steve Jablonsky, H. C. Robbins Landon, and Zagir Ismagilov. After him are Isaac Schwartz, James Scott, Harry Warren, Jocelyn Pook, Peter Warlock, and Javier Navarrete.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, David Arnold ranks 381. Before him are Garth Brooks, Abdeslam Laghrissi, Akiva Goldsman, Torsten Gütschow, Nick Rhodes, and Tony Cascarino. After him are Trevor Goddard, Peter Segal, Gustavo Alfaro, Liviu Dragnea, Nicholas Lea, and Erika Hess.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Arnold ranks 4,641 out of 8,785. Before him are Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999), Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864), Charles Mackay (1814), Tony Cascarino (1962), Eleanor Bron (1938), and David Hewlett (1968). After him are Malcolm Bradbury (1932), Trevor Goddard (1962), Gerry Hitchens (1934), Keith Levene (1957), Long John Baldry (1941), and Joseph Barcroft (1872).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, David Arnold ranks 74. Before him are Thomas Weelkes (1576), Gavin Bryars (1943), Monty Norman (1928), William Sterndale Bennett (1816), Thomas Tomkins (1572), and George Fenton (1950). After him are Jocelyn Pook (1960), Peter Warlock (1894), John Wilbye (1574), Thomas Campion (1567), Thomas Adès (1971), and Henry Lawes (1595).

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