MUSICIAN

Jan Hammer

1948 - Today

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Jan Hammer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦamɛr]) (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-American musician, composer, and record producer. He rose to prominence while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the early 1970s, as well as with his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the 1980s television program Miami Vice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Hammer has received more than 973,833 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Hammer is the 456th most popular musician (up from 477th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 249th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jan Hammers by language

Over the past year Jan Hammer has had the most page views in the with 123,268 views, followed by German (24,118), and Czech (17,506). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Icelandic (85.38%), Southern Azerbaijani (60.52%), and Serbian (42.51%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Jan Hammer ranks 456 out of 3,175Before him are Dionisio Aguado y García, Mitsuko Uchida, Marco Hietala, Ralf Hütter, Bud Powell, and Janick Gers. After him are Serj Tankian, Tansen, Aarre Merikanto, Rezső Seress, Vince Clarke, and Salvatore Accardo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jan Hammer ranks 155Before him are Cassandra Harris, Dušan Bajević, Mitsuko Uchida, Miklós Németh, Theo Jansen, and Michael Kamen. After him are Jayalalithaa, Frans de Waal, Bill Ward, Raymond Leo Burke, Marcia Barrett, and Roger Williamson.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Hammer ranks 244 out of 1,200Before him are Rudolf Serkin (1903), Emil Orlík (1870), Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751), Karel Brückner (1939), Anne of Bavaria (1329), and Josef Lada (1887). After him are Jan Saudek (1935), Johannes Widmann (1460), Spytihněv I, Duke of Bohemia (875), Helena Vondráčková (1947), Alice Herz-Sommer (1903), and Jaroslav Drobný (1921).

Among MUSICIANS In Czechia

Among musicians born in Czechia, Jan Hammer ranks 6Before him are Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644), Alfred Brendel (1931), David Popper (1843), Jan Kubelík (1880), and Rudolf Serkin (1903). After him are Alice Herz-Sommer (1903), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Josef Suk (1929), Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812), Ivan Mládek (1942), and Eduard Nápravník (1839).