1936 - 2023
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.
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Among musicians, Roger Whittaker ranks 379 out of 2,662. Before 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.
1944 - 2014
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 373
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 374
1956 - Present
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 375
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 376
1843 - 1913
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 377
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 378
1936 - 2023
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 379
1943 - 1999
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 380
1921 - 1976
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 381
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 382
1927 - 2019
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 383
1889 - 1968
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 384
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 385
Among people born in 1936, Roger Whittaker ranks 117. Before 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 80. Before 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.
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 111
1936 - 1990
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 112
1936 - 2000
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 113
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 114
1936 - 2012
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 115
1936 - 1979
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 116
1936 - 2023
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 117
1936 - 2017
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 118
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 119
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 120
1936 - 2020
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 121
1936 - 2016
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 122
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 123
1928 - 2023
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 74
1941 - 2023
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 75
1929 - 2023
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 76
1928 - 2023
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 77
1949 - 2023
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 78
1940 - 2023
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 79
1936 - 2023
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 80
1963 - 2023
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 81
1939 - 2023
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 82
1930 - 2023
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 83
1966 - 2023
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 84
1933 - 2023
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 85
1942 - 2023
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 86
Among people born in Kenya, Roger Whittaker ranks 7 out of 140. Before 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).
1941 - Present
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 1
1940 - 2011
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 2
1936 - 1982
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 3
1893 - 1978
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 4
1903 - 1972
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 5
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 6
1936 - 2023
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 7
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 8
1924 - 2020
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 10
1931 - 2022
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 11
1984 - Present
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 12
1961 - Present
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 13
Among musicians born in Kenya, Roger Whittaker ranks 1.