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Yo-Yo Ma

1955 - Today

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Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, Ma moved with his family to Boston and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yo-Yo Ma has received more than 5,731,034 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Yo-Yo Ma is the 403rd most popular composer (down from 383rd in 2019), the 1,785th most popular biography from France (down from 1,634th in 2019) and the 61st most popular French Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 403 out of 1,451. Before him are Nicolaus Bruhns, Anatoly Lyadov, Ariel Ramírez, Jakov Gotovac, Carl Loewe, and Alfred Einstein. After him are Adriano Banchieri, Mauricio Kagel, Maria Szymanowska, Franz Schreker, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, and Richard Rodgers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 80. Before him are Emine Erdoğan, Egils Levits, Binali Yıldırım, Lena Olin, Richard Schiff, and Tommy Wiseau. After him are Mira Furlan, Iman, Hans-Peter Briegel, Bill Paxton, Jeff Koons, and Meles Zenawi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 1,785 out of 6,770. Before him are Hervé Villechaize (1943), Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (1434), Julian the Hospitaller (700), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), Maurice Herzog (1919), and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711). After him are John I, Duke of Alençon (1385), Theobald V, Count of Blois (1130), Charles Huntziger (1880), Jules Dupré (1811), Maurice Sarrail (1856), and John III, Duke of Bavaria (1374).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 61. Before him are Louis Marchand (1669), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Charles Koechlin (1867), Georges Delerue (1925), and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689). After him are Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Georg Muffat (1653), André Jolivet (1905), Étienne Méhul (1763), and Louis Durey (1888).

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