1910 - 1999
Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier in the Interzone, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Bowles has received more than 846,046 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Paul Bowles is the 472nd most popular composer (up from 493rd in 2019), the 2,225th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,313th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Composer.
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Among composers, Paul Bowles ranks 472 out of 1,216. Before him are Simon Mayr, Grock, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Erwin Schulhoff, Bill Conti, and Peter Cornelius. After him are Pavel Haas, Einojuhani Rautavaara, James Newton Howard, Vicente Martín y Soler, Henri Duparc, and Antonio Sacchini.
1763 - 1845
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 466
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 467
1667 - 1752
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 468
1894 - 1942
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 469
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 470
1824 - 1874
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 471
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 472
1899 - 1944
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 473
1928 - 2016
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 474
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 475
1754 - 1806
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 476
1848 - 1933
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 477
1730 - 1786
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 478
Among people born in 1910, Paul Bowles ranks 77. Before him are Farid al-Atrash, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Remo Giazotto, Kenneth E. Boulding, Barthélemy Boganda, and Miguel Hernández. After him are He Zizhen, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Ferdinand Daučík, Louis Slotin, Masayoshi Ōhira, and Julien Gracq. Among people deceased in 1999, Paul Bowles ranks 69. Before him are Saul Steinberg, DeForest Kelley, Charlotte Perriand, Moondog, Victor Mature, and Lajos Tichy. After him are Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Sebastian Haffner, Ilmari Juutilainen, Igor Netto, Brion James, and Phaedon Gizikis.
1910 - 1974
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 71
1910 - 1977
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 72
1910 - 1998
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 73
1910 - 1993
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 74
1910 - 1959
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 75
1910 - 1942
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 76
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 77
1910 - 1984
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 78
1910 - 1996
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 79
1910 - 1986
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 80
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 81
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 82
1910 - 2007
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 83
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 63
1920 - 1999
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 64
1903 - 1999
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 65
1916 - 1999
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 66
1913 - 1999
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 67
1935 - 1999
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 68
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 69
1902 - 1999
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 70
1907 - 1999
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 71
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 72
1930 - 1999
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 73
1945 - 1999
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 74
1917 - 1999
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 75
Among people born in United States, Paul Bowles ranks 2,225 out of 18,182. Before him are Oliver Winchester (1810), David Letterman (1947), Daryl Hannah (1960), Cloris Leachman (1926), David Soul (1943), and Robert Plutchik (1927). After him are Alicia Rhett (1915), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Ivan Sutherland (1938), and Ricky Nelson (1940).
1810 - 1880
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 2,219
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 2,220
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 2,221
1926 - 2021
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 2,222
1943 - 2024
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 2,223
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 2,224
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 2,225
1915 - 2014
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 2,226
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 2,227
1893 - 1961
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 2,228
1843 - 1926
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 2,229
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 2,230
1940 - 1985
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 2,231
Among composers born in United States, Paul Bowles ranks 27. Before him are Stephen Sondheim (1930), Terry Riley (1935), Michael Kamen (1948), Richard Rodgers (1902), George Crumb (1929), and Bill Conti (1942). After him are James Newton Howard (1951), Danny Elfman (1953), Stephen Foster (1826), John Adams (1947), George Antheil (1900), and Morton Feldman (1926).
1930 - 2021
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 21
1935 - Present
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 22
1948 - 2003
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 23
1902 - 1979
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 24
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 25
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 26
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 27
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 28
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 29
1826 - 1864
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 30
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 31
1900 - 1959
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 32
1926 - 1987
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 33