COMPOSER

Thomas Newman

1955 - Today

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Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), American Beauty and The Green Mile (both 1999), Pay It Forward (2000), In the Bedroom (2001), Road to Perdition and White Oleander (both 2002), Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), WALL-E (2008), the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), 1917 (2019), and Elemental (2023). Newman also composed the music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001) and 2003 miniseries Angels in America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Newman has received more than 2,711,076 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Thomas Newman is the 789th most popular composer (down from 669th in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,190th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Thomas Newman ranks 789 out of 1,451. Before him are Erkki Melartin, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Moritz Hauptmann, Sigismondo d'India, Nicola Fago, and Wim Mertens. After him are Koichi Sugiyama, Carlos Chávez, Johann Rosenmüller, Jan Václav Voříšek, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, and Alexander Spendiaryan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Thomas Newman ranks 165. Before him are Udit Narayan, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Steve Jones, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Anatoly Chubais, and Anneli Jäätteenmäki. After him are Timothy Garton Ash, Herbert Prohaska, William Forsythe, Steve Berry, Thierry Breton, and Yasmina Khadra.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Newman ranks 3,795 out of 20,380. Before him are Ty Cobb (1886), John Perkins (1945), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Sarah Paulson (1974), Bernie Mac (1957), and Jim Croce (1943). After him are Robert Foxworth (1941), Michael Richards (1949), Darlene Conley (1934), Aileen Riggin (1906), Bruce Rauner (1957), and Charles Fox Parham (1873).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Thomas Newman ranks 43. Before him are Alex North (1910), Amy Beach (1867), Jerome Kern (1885), Dave Grusin (1934), La Monte Young (1935), and Lee Konitz (1927). After him are George Crumb (1929), Edward MacDowell (1860), Meredith Monk (1942), David Del Tredici (1937), Cathy Berberian (1925), and Elliott Carter (1908).

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