MUSICIAN

Stuart Sutcliffe

1940 - 1962

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Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British painter and musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, best known as the original bass guitarist of the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with inventing the name "Beetles" (sic), as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stuart Sutcliffe has received more than 2,952,052 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Stuart Sutcliffe is the 211th most popular musician (down from 125th in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 538th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Musician.

Stuart Sutcliffe was a founding member of the Beatles. He played bass guitar and was one of the original members of the band. He was a good friend of John Lennon and was the only member of the Beatles to be born outside of the United Kingdom. He left the band in 1961 to pursue a career as an artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Stuart Sutcliffe ranks 211 out of 3,175. Before him are Gidon Kremer, Clara Haskil, Ken Hensley, Violeta Parra, Joe Jackson, and Herbie Hancock. After him are Lenny Kravitz, Snoop Dogg, Mike Portnoy, Dave Brubeck, Izzy Stradlin, and György Cziffra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Stuart Sutcliffe ranks 83. Before him are Gudrun Ensslin, Milena Dravić, Ira von Fürstenberg, Tom Jones, Marlène Jobert, and Herbie Hancock. After him are Toshihide Maskawa, George Akerlof, Robin Cook, Dionne Warwick, Ali Hassan Salameh, and Phil Ochs. Among people deceased in 1962, Stuart Sutcliffe ranks 35. Before him are Joseph Berchtold, Hans Lammers, Ronald Fisher, Ivan Meštrović, Jacques Ibert, and C. Wright Mills. After him are Hanns Eisler, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Georgios Papanikolaou, Killing of Peter Fechter, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Dušan Simović.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stuart Sutcliffe ranks 787 out of 8,785. Before him are John Gielgud (1904), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), James Black (1924), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), P. D. James (1920), and Naomi Watts (1968). After him are Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Robert Peel (1788), Thomas Malory (1405), Tom Hardy (1977), and Leonora Carrington (1917).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Stuart Sutcliffe ranks 49. Before him are Ian Paice (1948), Bill Wyman (1936), John Cale (1942), John Paul Jones (1946), Amy Winehouse (1983), and Ken Hensley (1945). After him are Cliff Williams (1949), Alan Parsons (1948), Ian Stewart (1938), Mick Taylor (1949), Bob Klose (1945), and Karl Jenkins (1944).

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