1936 - Today
Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and world-wide. He was the Minister of culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raimonds Pauls has received more than 114,639 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Raimonds Pauls is the 522nd most popular composer (down from 505th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 36th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Composer.
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Among composers, Raimonds Pauls ranks 522 out of 1,228. Before him are Johann Christoph Pepusch, Carl Zeller, Hermann Scherchen, Hucbald, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Manuel Ponce. After him are Johann Gottfried Walther, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Alex North, Hermann Abendroth, and Stefano Landi.
1667 - 1752
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 516
1842 - 1898
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 517
1891 - 1966
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 518
840 - 930
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 519
1918 - 1970
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 520
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 521
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 522
1684 - 1748
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 523
1807 - 1844
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 524
1931 - 2018
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 525
1910 - 1991
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 526
1883 - 1956
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 527
1587 - 1639
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 528
Among people born in 1936, Raimonds Pauls ranks 136. Before him are Jacques Charrier, Claude Brasseur, Christiane Martel, Horst Mahler, Louis Gossett Jr., and Georgina Spelvin. After him are Robert Downey Sr., Alejandra Pizarnik, Eugenio Barba, Renato Corti, Hifikepunye Pohamba, and Zeynab Khanlarova.
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 130
1936 - 2020
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 131
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 132
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 133
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 134
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 135
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 136
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 137
1936 - 1972
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 138
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 139
1936 - 2020
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 140
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 141
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 142
Among people born in Latvia, Raimonds Pauls ranks 40 out of 242. Before him are Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Oswald Külpe (1862), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Vizma Belševica (1931), and Friedrich Kettler (1569). After him are Solomon Mikhoels (1890), Friedrich Zander (1887), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Pēteris Vasks (1946), Maria Amalia of Courland (1653), and Yevgeny Miller (1867).
1889 - 1938
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 34
1862 - 1915
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 35
1873 - 1938
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 36
1650 - 1698
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 37
1931 - 2005
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 38
1569 - 1642
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 39
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 40
1890 - 1948
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 41
1887 - 1933
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 42
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 43
1946 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 44
1653 - 1711
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 45
1867 - 1939
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 46
Among composers born in Latvia, Raimonds Pauls ranks 1. After him are Pēteris Vasks (1946), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Balys Dvarionas (1904), and Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977).
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 1
1946 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 2
1863 - 1948
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 3
1879 - 1951
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 4
1906 - 1983
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 5
1904 - 1972
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 6
1977 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 7