1868 - 1944
Florence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster; July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur soprano who became known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."Despite – or perhaps because of – her technical incompetence, she became a prominent musical camp cult-figure in New York City during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Florence Foster Jenkins has received more than 7,999,737 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Florence Foster Jenkins is the 77th most popular singer (down from 72nd in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from United States (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Singer.
Florence Foster Jenkins was a New York heiress who became famous for her lack of musical talent. She was known for singing songs with a terrible voice to audiences who were too polite to tell her she was terrible.
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Among singers, Florence Foster Jenkins ranks 77 out of 3,528. Before her are Kate Bush, Marianne Faithfull, Karel Gott, Glen Campbell, Prince, and Bonnie Tyler. After her are Anna Magdalena Bach, Marie Fredriksson, Miriam Makeba, Fairuz, Rihanna, and Steven Tyler.
1958 - Present
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 71
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.76
Rank: 72
1939 - 2019
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 73
1936 - 2017
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 74
1958 - 2016
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 75
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 76
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 77
1701 - 1760
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 78
1958 - 2019
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 79
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 80
1935 - Present
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 81
1988 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 82
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 83
Among people born in 1868, Florence Foster Jenkins ranks 19. Before her are Arnold Sommerfeld, Peter Behrens, Robert Falcon Scott, Gertrude Bell, Fuad I of Egypt, and Gaston Leroux. After her are Paul Claudel, Theodore William Richards, Dietrich Eckart, Gustav Meyrink, Vittorio Monti, and Felix Hoffmann. Among people deceased in 1944, Florence Foster Jenkins ranks 25. Before her are Michael Wittmann, Galeazzo Ciano, Friedrich Olbricht, Chūichi Nagumo, Ernst Thälmann, and Milena Jesenská. After her are Charles Glover Barkla, Nikolai Vatutin, Henning von Tresckow, Erwin von Witzleben, Glenn Miller, and Louis Renault.
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 13
1868 - 1940
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 14
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 15
1868 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 16
1868 - 1936
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 17
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 18
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 19
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 20
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 21
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 22
1868 - 1932
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 23
1868 - 1922
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 24
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 25
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 19
1903 - 1944
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 20
1888 - 1944
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 21
1887 - 1944
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 22
1886 - 1944
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 23
1896 - 1944
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 24
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 25
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 26
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 27
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 28
1881 - 1944
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 29
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 30
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 31
Among people born in United States, Florence Foster Jenkins ranks 507 out of 18,182. Before her are Harriet Tubman (1820), Paul Simon (1941), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Melvin Calvin (1911), Ruth Benedict (1887), and Immanuel Wallerstein (1930). After her are John Kerry (1943), Robert Mitchum (1917), Leonard Nimoy (1931), Romina Power (1951), John Malkovich (1953), and Allen Ginsberg (1926).
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 501
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 502
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 503
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 504
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 505
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 506
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 507
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 508
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 509
1931 - 2015
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 510
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 511
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 512
1926 - 1997
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 513
Among singers born in United States, Florence Foster Jenkins ranks 31. Before her are Stevie Wonder (1950), Eminem (1972), The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), Diana Ross (1944), Glen Campbell (1936), and Prince (1958). After her are Steven Tyler (1948), Gwen Stefani (1969), Art Garfunkel (1941), Meat Loaf (1947), Gloria Gaynor (1947), and Donna Summer (1948).
1950 - Present
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 25
1972 - Present
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 26
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 27
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 28
1936 - 2017
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 29
1958 - 2016
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 30
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 31
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 32
1969 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 33
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 34
1947 - 2022
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 35
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 36
1948 - 2012
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 37