1946 - Today
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Shore has received more than 2,633,483 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Howard Shore is the 186th most popular composer (up from 228th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Composer.
Howard Shore is most famous for composing the score for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
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Among composers, Howard Shore ranks 186 out of 1,216. Before him are Giuseppe Torelli, Pauline Viardot, Michael Haydn, John Field, Bohuslav Martinů, and Komitas. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Luciano Berio, Louis Spohr, Max Reger, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Ludwig Minkus.
1658 - 1709
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 180
1821 - 1910
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 181
1737 - 1806
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 182
1782 - 1837
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 183
1890 - 1959
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 184
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 185
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 186
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 187
1925 - 2003
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 188
1784 - 1859
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 189
1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 190
1697 - 1773
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 191
1826 - 1917
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 192
Among people born in 1946, Howard Shore ranks 65. Before him are Uri Geller, Bolo Yeung, Isaias Afwerki, Boris Berezovsky, Danny Glover, and Thongloun Sisoulith. After him are Jean Todt, Daniel Libeskind, Ed O'Neill, John Woo, Peter Singer, and Tim Curry.
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 59
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 60
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 61
1946 - 2013
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 62
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 63
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 64
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 65
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 66
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 67
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 68
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 69
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 70
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 71
Among people born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 33 out of 1,350. Before him are Neil Young (1945), Robert Mundell (1932), Oswald Avery (1877), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Bryan Adams (1959), and Pierre Trudeau (1919). After him are Henry Mintzberg (1939), Richard E. Taylor (1929), René Angélil (1942), William Giauque (1895), Joni Mitchell (1943), and Paul Anka (1941).
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 27
1932 - 2021
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 28
1877 - 1955
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 29
1908 - 2006
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 30
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 31
1919 - 2000
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 32
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 33
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 34
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 35
1942 - 2016
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 36
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 37
1943 - Present
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 38
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 39
Among composers born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 1. After him are Percy Faith (1908), Mychael Danna (1958), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), and Venetian Snares (1975).
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 1
1908 - 1976
HPI: 50.03
Rank: 2
1958 - Present
HPI: 42.16
Rank: 3
1972 - Present
HPI: 39.08
Rank: 4
1980 - Present
HPI: 35.78
Rank: 5
1975 - Present
HPI: 31.46
Rank: 6