1916 - 2004
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. S. Subbulakshmi has received more than 1,622,318 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). M. S. Subbulakshmi is the 858th most popular singer (down from 795th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from India (down from 336th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Singer.
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Among singers, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 858 out of 3,541. Before her are Anna Maria Jopek, G-Dragon, Dusty Hill, Paul Weller, Sandro de América, and Merle Haggard. After her are Demi Lovato, Nicky Hopkins, Kulyash Baiseitova, Nicole, James LaBrie, and Michel Delpech.
1970 - Present
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 852
1988 - Present
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 853
1949 - Present
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 854
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 855
1945 - 2010
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 856
1937 - 2016
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 857
1916 - 2004
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 858
1992 - Present
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 859
1944 - 1994
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 860
1912 - 1957
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 861
1964 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 862
1963 - Present
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 863
1946 - 2016
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 864
Among people born in 1916, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 149. Before her are Van Johnson, Charles Kittel, Anton Diffring, Françoise Giroud, Tinus Osendarp, and Rostislav Alexeyev. After her are Keenan Wynn, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Anne Hébert, Arie van Vliet, Giuseppe Taddei, and Bernard Heuvelmans. Among people deceased in 2004, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 154. Before her are Gennadi Strekalov, Bror Mellberg, Barney Kessel, Alexander Ragulin, Carrie Snodgress, and Christl Cranz. After her are Carlo Di Palma, Rodney Dangerfield, Daniel J. Boorstin, Jacek Kuroń, Werner Goldberg, and Janet Frame.
1916 - 2008
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 143
1916 - 2019
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 144
1916 - 1989
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 145
1916 - 2003
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 146
1916 - 2002
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 147
1916 - 1980
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 148
1916 - 2004
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 149
1916 - 1986
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 150
1916 - 2000
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 151
1916 - 2000
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 152
1916 - 2001
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 153
1916 - 2010
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 154
1916 - 2001
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 155
1940 - 2004
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 148
1923 - 2004
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 149
1923 - 2004
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 150
1941 - 2004
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 151
1945 - 2004
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 152
1914 - 2004
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 153
1916 - 2004
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 154
1925 - 2004
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 155
1921 - 2004
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 156
1914 - 2004
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 157
1934 - 2004
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 158
1919 - 2004
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 159
1924 - 2004
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 160
Among people born in India, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 388 out of 1,227. Before her are Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Kumar Sanu (1957), Joseph Vaz (1651), Akshay Kumar (1967), Islam Shah Suri (1510), and M. F. Husain (1915). After her are D. R. Bendre (1896), Nutan (1936), Priyanka Chopra (1982), John Shepherd-Barron (1925), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), and Ivan Dias (1936).
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 382
1957 - Present
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 383
1651 - 1711
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 384
1967 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 385
1510 - 1554
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 386
1915 - 2011
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 387
1916 - 2004
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 388
1896 - 1981
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 389
1936 - 1991
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 390
1982 - Present
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 391
1925 - 2010
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 392
1720 - 1761
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 393
1936 - 2017
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 394
Among singers born in India, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 7. Before her are Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Asha Bhosle (1933), Kishore Kumar (1929), and Kumar Sanu (1957). After her are Manna Dey (1919), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Peter Sarstedt (1941), and Girija Devi (1929).
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 1
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 2
1924 - 1980
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 3
1933 - Present
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 4
1929 - 1987
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 5
1957 - Present
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 6
1916 - 2004
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 7
1919 - 2013
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 8
1922 - 2011
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 9
1922 - 2009
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 10
1920 - 1989
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 11
1941 - 2017
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 12
1929 - 2017
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 13