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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 mix 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 1,941,686 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Roger Whittaker is the 379th most popular musician (down from 340th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Kenya and the most popular Kenyan Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Roger Whittaker ranks 379 out of 2,662Before him are Johnny Winter, Alan Menken, Krystian Zimerman, Bobby McFerrin, David Popper, and Steve Morse. After him are Barış Manço, Géza Anda, Janick Gers, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rezső Seress, and Tony Levin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Roger Whittaker ranks 117Before him are Charles Dutoit, Jim Henson, Ivan Stambolić, Georgina Spelvin, Omar Suleiman, and Jacques Mesrine. After him are Jannis Kounellis, Masako Nozawa, Buddy Guy, Claude Brasseur, Andrew Grove, and Raimonds Pauls. Among people deceased in 2023, Roger Whittaker ranks 80Before him are Burt Bacharach, David Crosby, Antonio Carbajal, Frank Borman, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Jan Jongbloed. After him are Kevin Mitnick, Mark Margolis, Mary Quant, Sinéad O'Connor, Wayne Shorter, and Jean-Pierre Jabouille.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Roger Whittaker ranks 7 out of 140Before him are Richard Dawkins (1941), Wangari Maathai (1940), Barack Obama Sr. (1936), Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), and Richard Leakey (1944). After him are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Deep Roy (1949), Mwai Kibaki (1931), Eliud Kipchoge (1984), and Uhuru Kenyatta (1961).

Among MUSICIANS In Kenya

Among musicians born in Kenya, Roger Whittaker ranks 1