MUSICIAN

Uli Jon Roth

1954 - Today

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Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth; 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with the hard rock band Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and designer of the Sky Guitar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uli Jon Roth has received more than 1,176,437 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Uli Jon Roth is the 591st most popular musician (down from 475th in 2019), the 2,547th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,076th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Musician.

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  • 1.2M

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  • 54.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Uli Jon Roth ranks 591 out of 3,175. Before him are Euronymous, Felix Blumenfeld, David Helfgott, Robert Palmer, Axel Rudi Pell, and Rubén González. After him are Tim Rice, Curtis Mayfield, David Foster, Captain Beefheart, Tommy Bolin, and Lazar Berman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Uli Jon Roth ranks 121. Before him are Ahmed Dogan, Ilan Pappé, Kim Pyong-il, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Porcaro, and Plastic Bertrand. After him are Herbert Hainer, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Han Zheng, Karin Fossum, Bruno Metsu, and Valery Gazzaev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uli Jon Roth ranks 2,547 out of 7,253. Before him are Herms Niel (1888), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Julius Klaproth (1783), Sebald Beham (1500), Axel Rudi Pell (1960), and Walther Meissner (1882). After him are Erich Neumann (1892), Honoratus (365), Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814), Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666), and Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Uli Jon Roth ranks 32. Before him are Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Bert Kaempfert (1923), Rudolf Kempe (1910), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), and Axel Rudi Pell (1960). After him are Oliver Riedel (1971), Klaus Voormann (1938), Gerd Albrecht (1935), Peter Schreier (1935), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), and Robert Hausmann (1852).

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