1950 - Today
Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov (Russian: Григо́рий Ли́пманович Соколо́в; born April 18, 1950) is a Russian pianist with Spanish citizenship. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, his repertoire spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Sokolov has received more than 361,851 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Grigory Sokolov is the 345th most popular musician (up from 440th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 619th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Musician.
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Among musicians, Grigory Sokolov ranks 345 out of 2,662. Before him are Billy Gibbons, Jack Bruce, Michael Cretu, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Cliff Williams, and Burt Bacharach. After him are Ginger Baker, Wilhelm Backhaus, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Lee Soo-man, Bo Diddley, and Liberace.
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 339
1943 - 2014
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 340
1957 - Present
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 341
1922 - 2000
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 342
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 343
1928 - 2023
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 344
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 345
1939 - 2019
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 346
1884 - 1969
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 347
1665 - 1729
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 348
1952 - Present
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 349
1928 - 2008
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 350
1919 - 1987
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 351
Among people born in 1950, Grigory Sokolov ranks 73. Before him are Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Miou-Miou, Mark Blum, Chen Shui-bian, Mikhail Fradkov, and Håkan Nesser. After him are Tsui Hark, John Landis, Lakshmi Mittal, Laura Gemser, Julius Erving, and Ueli Maurer.
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 67
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 68
1950 - 2020
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 69
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 70
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 71
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 72
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 73
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 74
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 75
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 76
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 77
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 78
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 79
Among people born in Russia, Grigory Sokolov ranks 553 out of 3,262. Before him are Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Tode Mongke (1282), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906). After him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846).
1896 - 1978
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 547
1282 - 1287
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 548
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 549
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 550
1839 - 1915
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 551
1906 - 1989
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 552
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 553
1904 - 1964
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 554
1931 - 2004
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 555
1301 - 1339
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 556
1829 - 1905
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 557
1930 - 2014
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 558
1846 - 1888
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 559
Among musicians born in Russia, Grigory Sokolov ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Glazunov (1865), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), and Valery Gergiev (1953). After him are Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Alexander Gradsky (1949), Maria Yudina (1899), Lev Oborin (1907), Edgar Froese (1944), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), and Lazar Berman (1930).
1865 - 1936
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 2
1835 - 1881
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 3
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 4
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 5
1938 - Present
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 6
1949 - 2021
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 7
1899 - 1970
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 8
1907 - 1974
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 9
1944 - 2015
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 10
1901 - 1961
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 11
1930 - 2005
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 12