1926 - 2010
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She possessed a voice combining extraordinary agility, accurate intonation, "supremely" pinpoint staccatos, a trill and a tremendous upper register, although music critics often complained about the imprecision of her diction.Sutherland was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award, for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra) in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Sutherland has received more than 583,345 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Joan Sutherland is the 197th most popular singer (down from 194th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Australia and the most popular Australian Singer.
Joan Sutherland is most famous for her singing career. She was born in Sydney, Australia and became a member of the Australian Opera in 1960. She was the first Australian to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and she became one of the most celebrated opera singers of the 20th century.
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Among singers, Joan Sutherland ranks 197 out of 3,541. Before her are Mercédès Jellinek, Kyu Sakamoto, Britney Spears, Sam Cooke, Petula Clark, and Dr. Dre. After her are Trini Lopez, İbrahim Tatlıses, Sofia Rotaru, Courtney Love, Dionne Warwick, and Nicolai Gedda.
1889 - 1929
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 191
1941 - 1985
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 192
1981 - Present
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 193
1931 - 1964
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 194
1932 - Present
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 195
1965 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 196
1926 - 2010
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 197
1937 - 2020
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 198
1952 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 199
1947 - Present
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 200
1964 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 201
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 202
1925 - 2017
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 203
Among people born in 1926, Joan Sutherland ranks 70. Before her are César Pelli, Ta Mok, Abdoulaye Wade, Shohei Imamura, Vasily Arkhipov, and Gyula Grosics. After her are Yoshio Okada, Noah Gordon, Poul Anderson, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Jean-Pierre Serre, and Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Among people deceased in 2010, Joan Sutherland ranks 37. Before her are Francesco Cossiga, Harry Mulisch, Blake Edwards, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Algirdas Brazauskas, and Paul Schäfer. After her are Enzo Bearzot, Alice Miller, Vladimir Arnold, John Fenn, Arthur Penn, and Mario Monicelli.
1926 - 2019
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 64
1926 - 2006
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 65
1926 - Present
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 66
1926 - 2006
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 67
1926 - 1998
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 68
1926 - 2014
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 69
1926 - 2010
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 70
1926 - 2002
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 71
1926 - Present
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 72
1926 - 2001
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 73
1926 - 2016
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 74
1926 - Present
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 75
1926 - 2006
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 76
1928 - 2010
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 31
1927 - 2010
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 32
1922 - 2010
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 33
1938 - 2010
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 34
1932 - 2010
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 35
1921 - 2010
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 36
1926 - 2010
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 37
1927 - 2010
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 38
1923 - 2010
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 39
1937 - 2010
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 40
1917 - 2010
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 41
1922 - 2010
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 42
1915 - 2010
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 43
Among people born in Australia, Joan Sutherland ranks 28 out of 790. Before her are Margot Robbie (1990), P. L. Travers (1899), John Eccles (1903), Peter Weir (1944), Robin Warren (1937), and Tamam Shud case (1903). After her are Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), Howard Florey (1898), Kylie Minogue (1968), Lisa Gerrard (1961), John Cornforth (1917), and James Clavell (1921).
1990 - Present
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 22
1899 - 1996
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 23
1903 - 1997
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 24
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 25
1937 - Present
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 26
1903 - 1948
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 27
1926 - 2010
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 28
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 29
1898 - 1968
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 30
1968 - Present
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 31
1961 - Present
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 32
1917 - 2013
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 33
1921 - 1994
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 34
Among singers born in Australia, Joan Sutherland ranks 1. After her are Kylie Minogue (1968), Johnny Logan (1954), Nellie Melba (1861), Natalie Imbruglia (1975), Helen Reddy (1941), Dannii Minogue (1971), Lenka (1978), Tones and I (2000), Darren Hayes (1972), Iggy Azalea (1990), and Cody Simpson (1997).
1926 - 2010
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 1
1968 - Present
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 2
1954 - Present
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 3
1861 - 1931
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 4
1975 - Present
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 5
1941 - 2020
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 6
1971 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 7
1978 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 8
2000 - Present
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 9
1972 - Present
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 10
1990 - Present
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 11
1997 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 12