1941 - 2012
John Douglas Lord (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple, and he became regarded as its leader in the early years. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous members in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from when it was re-established in 1984 until Lord's retirement in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jon Lord has received more than 1,877,742 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Jon Lord is the 70th most popular musician (down from 48th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 268th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Musician.
Jon Lord is most famous for being the keyboardist for the band Deep Purple. He is also known for his solo work, including "Pictures of Home" and "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast."
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Among musicians, Jon Lord ranks 70 out of 2,662. Before him are Chet Baker, Django Reinhardt, Carlos Santana, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, André Rieu, and Syd Barrett. After him are Amir Khusrow, Cosima Wagner, Alexander Glazunov, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Cliff Burton, and Iggy Pop.
1929 - 1988
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 64
1910 - 1953
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 65
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 66
1959 - 1997
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 67
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 68
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 69
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 70
1253 - 1325
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 71
1837 - 1930
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 72
1865 - 1936
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 73
1927 - 1994
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 74
1962 - 1986
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 75
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 76
Among people born in 1941, Jon Lord ranks 26. Before him are Tadao Ando, Dick Cheney, Robert Forster, Faye Dunaway, Franco Nero, and Nona Gaprindashvili. After him are Julia Kristeva, Vivienne Westwood, Viktor Zubkov, Václav Klaus, Jon Brower Minnoch, and Paul Simon. Among people deceased in 2012, Jon Lord ranks 12. Before him are Whitney Houston, Ahmed Ben Bella, Eric Hobsbawm, Carroll Shelby, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Theo Angelopoulos. After him are George Tupou V, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Yitzhak Shamir, Ernest Borgnine, Sylvia Kristel, and Elinor Ostrom.
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 20
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 21
1941 - 2019
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 22
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 23
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 24
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 25
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 26
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 27
1941 - 2022
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 28
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 29
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 30
1941 - 1983
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 31
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 32
1963 - 2012
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 6
1916 - 2012
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 7
1917 - 2012
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 8
1923 - 2012
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 9
1957 - 2012
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 10
1935 - 2012
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 11
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 12
1948 - 2012
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 13
1909 - 2012
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 14
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1917 - 2012
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 16
1952 - 2012
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 17
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 18
Among people born in United Kingdom, Jon Lord ranks 323 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Falcon Scott (1868), John Herschel (1792), Anne Neville (1456), Frederick Soddy (1877), Syd Barrett (1946), and Jacqueline Bisset (1944). After him are Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), George Eliot (1819), G. K. Chesterton (1874), William Crookes (1832), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220).
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 317
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 318
1456 - 1485
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 319
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 320
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 321
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 322
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 323
837 - 871
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 324
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 325
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 326
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 327
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 328
1220 - 1282
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 329
Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Jon Lord ranks 24. Before him are Lemmy (1945), David Gilmour (1946), Roger Waters (1943), Jimmy Page (1944), Ritchie Blackmore (1945), and Syd Barrett (1946). After him are Robert Fripp (1946), Richard Wright (1943), Angus Young (1955), Gary Moore (1952), Mike Oldfield (1953), and John Bonham (1948).
1945 - 2015
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 18
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 19
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 20
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 21
1945 - Present
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 22
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 23
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 24
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 25
1943 - 2008
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 26
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 27
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 28
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 29
1948 - 1980
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 30