1933 - 2011
John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the "James Bond Theme" to the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Barry has received more than 61,239 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). John Barry is the 170th most popular composer (up from 176th in 2019), the 511th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 526th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Composer.
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Among composers, John Barry ranks 170 out of 1,228. Before him are Vincenzo Galilei, Francesco Cavalli, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Stamitz, Philippe de Vitry, and Michael Haydn. After him are Adrian Willaert, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Max Reger, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Louis Spohr.
1520 - 1591
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 164
1602 - 1676
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 165
1866 - 1924
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 166
1717 - 1757
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 167
1291 - 1361
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 168
1737 - 1806
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 169
1933 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 170
1490 - 1562
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 171
1904 - 1986
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 172
1873 - 1916
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 173
1562 - 1621
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 174
1883 - 1946
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 175
1784 - 1859
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 176
Among people born in 1933, John Barry ranks 32. Before him are Oliver Sacks, Richard Rogers, Bernardo Provenzano, Gene Wilder, Paul Biya, and Álvaro Siza Vieira. After him are Heinrich Rohrer, Kim Novak, Wilbur Smith, Jerzy Grotowski, Jayne Mansfield, and Gian Maria Volonté. Among people deceased in 2011, John Barry ranks 23. Before him are Simon van der Meer, Ágota Kristóf, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Gary Moore, Flórián Albert, and Sidney Lumet. After him are Diana Wynne Jones, Annie Girardot, Rudolf Mössbauer, Necmettin Erbakan, Willard Boyle, and Lucian Freud.
1933 - 2015
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 26
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 27
1933 - 2016
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 28
1933 - 2016
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 29
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 30
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 31
1933 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 32
1933 - 2013
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 33
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 34
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 35
1933 - 1999
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 36
1933 - 1967
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 37
1933 - 1994
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 38
1925 - 2011
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 17
1935 - 2011
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 18
1940 - 2011
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 19
1952 - 2011
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 20
1941 - 2011
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 21
1924 - 2011
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 22
1933 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 23
1934 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 24
1931 - 2011
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 25
1929 - 2011
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 26
1926 - 2011
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 27
1924 - 2011
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 28
1922 - 2011
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 29
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Barry ranks 511 out of 6,924. Before him are Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Christopher Nolan (1970), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), Ben Jonson (1572), and Peter Gabriel (1950). After him are Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Daniel Craig (1968), Frank Williams (1942), Maud of Wales (1869), Tony Iommi (1948), and Norman Haworth (1883).
1596 - 1662
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 505
1020 - 1076
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 506
1970 - Present
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 507
1859 - 1925
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 508
1572 - 1637
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 509
1950 - Present
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 510
1933 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 511
1934 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 512
1968 - Present
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 513
1942 - Present
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 514
1869 - 1938
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 515
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 516
1883 - 1950
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 517
Among composers born in United Kingdom, John Barry ranks 5. Before him are Edward Elgar (1857), Henry Purcell (1659), Benjamin Britten (1913), and Gustav Holst (1874). After him are William Byrd (1543), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Keith Emerson (1944), and Eugen d'Albert (1864).
1857 - 1934
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 1
1659 - 1695
HPI: 80.01
Rank: 2
1913 - 1976
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 3
1874 - 1934
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 4
1933 - 2011
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 5
1543 - 1623
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 6
1502 - 1585
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 8
1390 - 1453
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 9
1872 - 1958
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 10
1944 - 2016
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 11
1864 - 1932
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 12