1940 - Today
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (/jeːʃud̪aːs/; born 10 January 1940) is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Tulu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning six decades. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. J. Yesudas has received more than 3,844,784 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). K. J. Yesudas is the 1,552nd most popular singer (down from 1,470th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from India (down from 591st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Singer.
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Among singers, K. J. Yesudas ranks 1,552 out of 3,528. Before him are Nayeon, Joe Jonas, Dan Reynolds, Taeyeon, Olga Jackowska, and Alaska. After him are Tennessee Ernie Ford, Garth Brooks, Ricardo Arjona, Gerard Joling, Zazie, and Mika Nakashima.
1995 - Present
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 1,546
1989 - Present
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 1,547
1987 - Present
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 1,548
1989 - Present
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 1,549
1951 - 2018
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 1,550
1963 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 1,551
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 1,552
1919 - 1991
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 1,553
1962 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 1,554
1964 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 1,555
1960 - Present
HPI: 43.82
Rank: 1,556
1964 - Present
HPI: 43.81
Rank: 1,557
1983 - Present
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 1,558
Among people born in 1940, K. J. Yesudas ranks 445. Before him are Mike Beuttler, Thomas Köhler, Nicolae Martinescu, Eladio Silvestre, Dmitri Prigov, and Mary Ellen Mark. After him are James Gammon, Luis Ubiña, Alberto Fouilloux, Mariette Hartley, Edmund White, and Jaak Lipso.
1940 - 1988
HPI: 44.13
Rank: 439
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 440
1940 - 2013
HPI: 44.08
Rank: 441
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 442
1940 - 2007
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 443
1940 - 2015
HPI: 44.00
Rank: 444
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 445
1940 - 2010
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 446
1940 - 2013
HPI: 43.84
Rank: 447
1940 - 2018
HPI: 43.70
Rank: 448
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.66
Rank: 449
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.66
Rank: 450
1940 - 2023
HPI: 43.57
Rank: 451
Among people born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 630 out of 1,493. Before him are Anna Chandy (1905), The Great Gama (1878), Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904), Ismail Merchant (1936), Asha Parekh (1942), and Ardeshir Irani (1886). After him are Veerappan (1952), Zeenat Aman (1951), Guru Dutt (1925), Trilok Gurtu (1951), Feroz Khan (1939), and Amarinder Singh (1942).
1905 - 1996
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 624
1878 - 1960
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 625
1904 - 1986
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 626
1936 - 2005
HPI: 43.96
Rank: 627
1942 - Present
HPI: 43.95
Rank: 628
1886 - 1969
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 629
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 630
1952 - 2004
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 631
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 632
1925 - 1964
HPI: 43.77
Rank: 633
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.75
Rank: 634
1939 - 2009
HPI: 43.73
Rank: 635
1942 - Present
HPI: 43.73
Rank: 636
Among singers born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 17. Before him are Peter Sarstedt (1941), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Girija Devi (1929), Manna Dey (1919), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), and Udit Narayan (1955). After him are Jasraj (1930), Jagjit Singh (1941), Bappi Lahiri (1952), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Begum Akhtar (1914), and Anuradha Paudwal (1954).
1941 - 2017
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 11
1922 - 2009
HPI: 46.24
Rank: 12
1929 - 2017
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 13
1919 - 2013
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 14
1935 - Present
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 15
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 16
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 17
1930 - 2020
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 18
1941 - 2011
HPI: 43.16
Rank: 19
1952 - 2022
HPI: 42.27
Rank: 20
1920 - 1989
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 21
1914 - 1974
HPI: 40.67
Rank: 22
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.77
Rank: 23