1602 - 1645
William Lawes (April 1602 – 24 September 1645) was an English composer and musician. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lawes has received more than 109,064 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William Lawes is the 1,043rd most popular composer (down from 946th in 2019), the 3,036th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,811th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Composer.
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Among composers, William Lawes ranks 1,043 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Nicolaus Bach, Boris Papandopulo, Otto Jahn, Michael Tippett, Vilém Blodek, and Frederick Loewe. After him are Rudolf Tobias, Fumio Hayasaka, Hermann Goetz, Richard Heuberger, Knut Nystedt, and Karol Kurpiński.
1669 - 1753
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 1,037
1906 - 1991
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 1,038
1813 - 1869
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 1,039
1905 - 1998
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 1,040
1834 - 1874
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 1,041
1901 - 1988
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 1,042
1602 - 1645
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 1,043
1873 - 1918
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 1,044
1914 - 1955
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 1,045
1840 - 1876
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 1,046
1850 - 1914
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 1,047
1915 - 2014
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 1,048
1785 - 1857
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 1,049
Among people born in 1602, William Lawes ranks 18. Before him are Zhu Yujian, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, Evert van Aelst, Kanō Tan'yū, and Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1645, William Lawes ranks 16. Before him are Anthony van Diemen, Feng Menglong, Eudoxia Streshneva, Mary Ward, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, and Mariana de Jesús de Paredes.
1602 - 1646
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 12
1602 - 1637
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 13
1602 - 1651
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 14
1602 - 1657
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 15
1602 - 1674
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 16
1602 - 1664
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 17
1602 - 1645
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 18
1593 - 1645
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 10
1574 - 1645
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 11
1608 - 1645
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 12
1585 - 1645
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 13
1580 - 1645
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 14
1618 - 1645
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 15
1602 - 1645
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 16
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Lawes ranks 3,036 out of 7,765. Before him are Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Hayley Atwell (1982), Billy Bremner (1942), Donald Adamson (1939), Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), and Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838). After him are John Moore (1761), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Christopher Eccleston (1964), Herbert Lawford (1851), Paul Day (1956), and Martin Birch (1948).
1880 - 1961
HPI: 48.28
Rank: 3,030
1982 - Present
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 3,031
1942 - 1997
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 3,032
1939 - 2024
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 3,033
1863 - 1917
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 3,034
1838 - 1921
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 3,035
1602 - 1645
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 3,036
1761 - 1809
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 3,037
1901 - 1990
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 3,038
1964 - Present
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 3,039
1851 - 1925
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 3,040
1956 - Present
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 3,041
1948 - 2020
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 3,042
Among composers born in United Kingdom, William Lawes ranks 44. Before him are Patrick Doyle (1953), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Rutter (1945), Hubert Parry (1848), Cyril Scott (1879), and Michael Tippett (1905). After him are Charles Avison (1709), Clint Mansell (1963), Ivor Novello (1893), Henry Bishop (1786), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), and Gavin Bryars (1943).
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 38
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 39
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 40
1848 - 1918
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 41
1879 - 1970
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 42
1905 - 1998
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 43
1602 - 1645
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 44
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 45
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 46
1893 - 1951
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 47
1786 - 1855
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 48
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 49
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 50