MUSICIAN

Lars Ulrich

1963 - Today

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Lars Ulrich (; Danish: [ˈlɑːs ˈulˀʁek]; born 26 December 1963) is a Danish musician who is the drummer and co-founder of American heavy metal band Metallica. Along with James Hetfield, Ulrich has songwriting credits on almost all of the band's songs, and the two of them are the only remaining original members of the band. The son and grandson respectively of tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis in his youth and moved to Los Angeles at age 16 to train professionally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Ulrich has received more than 8,170,291 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Lars Ulrich is the 271st most popular musician (down from 253rd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 129th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Musician.

Lars Ulrich is most famous for being the drummer for the heavy metal band Metallica.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lars Ulriches by language

Over the past year Lars Ulrich has had the most page views in the with 1,167,163 views, followed by German (158,328), and Spanish (142,261). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (163.12%), Irish (84.94%), and Low Saxon (75.49%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Lars Ulrich ranks 271 out of 3,175Before him are J. J. Cale, Narciso Yepes, Dolores O'Riordan, Louis Vierne, Charles Mingus, and Mauro Giuliani. After him are PJ Harvey, Keith Moon, Slash, Arthur Nikisch, Grigory Sokolov, and Roger Daltrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Lars Ulrich ranks 46Before him are Harold Perrineau, Matti Nykänen, Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, Míchel, Til Schweiger, and Empress Masako. After him are Natasha Richardson, Félix Tshisekedi, Mike Myers, Helen Hunt, Mark Strong, and Borut Pahor.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Lars Ulrich ranks 135 out of 1,032Before him are Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (1456), S. P. L. Sørensen (1868), Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), and Gudfred (800). After him are Charles I, Count of Flanders (1083), Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Gabriel Axel (1918), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), and Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776).

Among MUSICIANS In Denmark

Among musicians born in Denmark, Lars Ulrich ranks 2Before him are Victor Borge (1909). After him are Jacob Gade (1879), Jørgen Ingmann (1925), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946), Svend Asmussen (1916), Ole Beich (1955), Michala Petri (1958), John Tchicai (1936), Kai Winding (1922), Flemming Rasmussen (1958), and Trentemøller (1972).