MUSICIAN

Roger Whittaker

1936 - 2023

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Roger Henry Brough Whittaker (22 March 1936 – 13 September 2023) was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and musician. His music is an eclectic mixture of folk music and popular songs, the latter variously in a crooning or in a schlager style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Whittaker has received more than 2,060,970 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Roger Whittaker is the 191st most popular musician (up from 378th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Kenya (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Kenyan Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Roger Whittaker ranks 191 out of 3,175. Before him are Nam June Paik, John Cale, John Paul Jones, Alicia Keys, Giovanni Battista Martini, and Emil Gilels. After him are Dr. Alban, Claudio Arrau, Paolo Conte, Gene Simmons, Joni Mitchell, and Abdel Halim Hafez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Roger Whittaker ranks 51. Before him are Émile Lahoud, Ghassan Kanafani, Bill Wyman, Raymond Poulidor, Benedict Anderson, and Yasuo Fukuda. After him are Assia Djebar, Choummaly Sayasone, Richard Wilson, Denny Hulme, Boniface Alexandre, and Bekim Fehmiu. Among people deceased in 2023, Roger Whittaker ranks 72. Before him are Cormac McCarthy, Tony Bennett, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Gordon Moore, Mary Quant, and Elliott Erwitt. After him are Piper Laurie, Albert Azaryan, Charlie Munger, Amancio Amaro, Ivan Silayev, and Leiji Matsumoto.

Others Born in 1936

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Roger Whittaker ranks 4 out of 150. Before him are Wangari Maathai (1940), Richard Dawkins (1941), and Barack Obama Sr. (1936). After him are Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Deep Roy (1949), Mwai Kibaki (1931), Richard Leakey (1944), and Kipchoge Keino (1940).

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Among MUSICIANS In Kenya

Among musicians born in Kenya, Roger Whittaker ranks 1. 

Kenyan born Musicians

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