MUSICIAN

Gerry Rafferty

1947 - 2011

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Gerald Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was a founding member of Stealers Wheel, whose biggest hit was "Stuck in the Middle with You" in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerry Rafferty has received more than 4,529,879 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Gerry Rafferty is the 814th most popular musician (down from 742nd in 2019), the 2,325th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,181st in 2019) and the 143rd most popular British Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gerry Rafferties by language

Over the past year Gerry Rafferty has had the most page views in the with 580,431 views, followed by German (39,273), and French (19,328). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (188.44%), Hungarian (86.61%), and Southern Azerbaijani (74.34%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Gerry Rafferty ranks 814 out of 3,175. Before him are Domenico Montagnana, Julian Bream, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Chris Squire, Yusef Lateef, and Xaver Scharwenka. After him are Sylvester Levay, Shigeru Umebayashi, Marcos Valle, Chuck Schuldiner, Adam Levine, and Dee Dee Warwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gerry Rafferty ranks 297. Before him are João Braz de Aviz, Robert David Hall, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gunter Demnig, Bernard Giraudeau, and Björn Skifs. After him are David Zucker, Kim Darby, Orlan, Olavo de Carvalho, Ján Pivarník, and Fernando Savater. Among people deceased in 2011, Gerry Rafferty ranks 170. Before him are María Mercader, Josefa Iloilo, Frederick Chiluba, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., James Hillman, and Jiří Dienstbier. After him are Wiel Coerver, Yevhen Rudakov, Charles T. Kowal, Pak Seung-zin, Kazimierz Świątek, and Anne Francis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gerry Rafferty ranks 2,325 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Salvadori (1922), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Chris Squire (1948), Guy Edwards (1942), Roger Williams (1603), and Jamie Dornan (1982). After him are F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), Christopher Hill (1912), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), John Hadley (1682), Stanley Myers (1930), and Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Gerry Rafferty ranks 143. Before him are Mick Fleetwood (1947), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Noel Redding (1945), Al Stewart (1945), Julian Bream (1933), and Chris Squire (1948). After him are Phil Taylor (1954), Snowy White (1948), Adam Clayton (1960), Mel Collins (1947), Pete Burns (1959), and Philip Catherine (1942).

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