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Paul Kantner

1941 - 2016

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Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Kantner has received more than 2,029,041 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Kantner is the 686th most popular musician (up from 849th in 2019), the 3,538th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,247th in 2019) and the 226th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Paul Kantner ranks 686 out of 2,662. Before him are Tim Buckley, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Scotty Moore, Mike Rutherford, Fritz Busch, and The Big Bopper. After him are Jörg Demus, Chris Squire, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Ahmad Jamal, Jan Akkerman, and Zequinha de Abreu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Paul Kantner ranks 216. Before him are Jessica Walter, George Clinton, Carla Gravina, Boris Vallejo, Félix Rodríguez, and Patricio Guzmán. After him are Harald Nielsen, Emmett Till, David Lewis, Robert Guéï, Leonid Kizim, and George Pell. Among people deceased in 2016, Paul Kantner ranks 179. Before him are Artur Fischer, Fazil Iskander, Zdravko Tolimir, Franciszek Macharski, Scotty Moore, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. After him are Louis Pilot, Halil İnalcık, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, and David Huddleston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Kantner ranks 3,538 out of 18,182. Before him are Jennifer Doudna (1964), Peter Boyle (1935), Kit Carson (1809), The Big Bopper (1930), Lloyd Bacon (1889), and Beatrice Wood (1893). After him are Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), Sylvia Sidney (1910), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), and Samuel Wilson (1766).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Paul Kantner ranks 226. Before him are Erroll Garner (1923), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Adam Levine (1979), Tim Buckley (1947), Scotty Moore (1931), and The Big Bopper (1930). After him are Ahmad Jamal (1930), T-Bone Walker (1910), John Petrucci (1967), Steven Van Zandt (1950), Chrissie Hynde (1951), and Rufus Wainwright (1973).

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