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Shirley Walker

1945 - 2006

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Shirley Anne Walker (née Rogers; April 10, 1945 – November 30, 2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood during her career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirley Walker has received more than 278,258 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Shirley Walker is the 1,360th most popular composer (down from 1,255th in 2019), the 10,692nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,536th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Shirley Walker ranks 1,360 out of 1,451. Before her are Jerry Herman, Lennox Berkeley, John Stainer, Humphrey Searle, Samuel Adler, and Magnus Lindberg. After her are Edmund Rubbra, Stephen Schwartz, Abel Korzeniowski, Arne Nordheim, Vladimír Godár, and Vladimir Jurowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Shirley Walker ranks 596. Before her are István Juhász, Randy Matson, Georg Volkert, Subhash Ghai, Eugenie Scott, and Brewster H. Shaw. After her are Baudilio Jáuregui, Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Max Hastings, Cristian Gațu, Lowell George, and Angela Scoular. Among people deceased in 2006, Shirley Walker ranks 349. Before her are Sofia Muratova, Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo, Ossi Reichert, Bernie Geoffrion, G. William Miller, and Suzanne Morrow Francis. After her are Gordon George Avery, Nellie Connally, Larry Black, Gun Röring, László Jeney, and Martin David Kruskal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Walker ranks 10,692 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746), Sam Snead (1912), Kevin Systrom (1983), Robert Lowery (1913), Cheryl Hines (1965), and Dorothy Abbott (1920). After her are Norman Z. McLeod (1898), Allen Johnson (1971), Shaun White (1986), Jimmy Bryan (1926), John McNaughton (1950), and Alain LeRoy Locke (1885).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Shirley Walker ranks 119. Before her are Jerry Bock (1928), Eubie Blake (2), Lowell Mason (1792), Robert Russell Bennett (1894), Roy Harris (1898), and Jerry Herman (1931). After her are Stephen Schwartz (1948), Angus MacLise (1938), Lou Harrison (1917), Fred Ebb (1928), Norman Dello Joio (1913), and David Newman (1954).

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