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Yo-Yo Ma

1955 - Today

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Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born and partially raised in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University, attended Columbia University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yo-Yo Ma has received more than 5,359,479 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Yo-Yo Ma is the 383rd most popular composer (up from 494th in 2019), the 1,640th most popular biography from France (up from 2,026th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Composer.

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  • 5.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 383 out of 1,216. Before him are Stephen Sondheim, Carl Heinrich Graun, Mauricio Kagel, Wojciech Kilar, Germaine Tailleferre, and Klaus Schulze. After him are Zdeněk Fibich, Domenico Zipoli, Fikret Amirov, Johan Svendsen, Giovanni Legrenzi, and Josef Rheinberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 66. Before him are José Antonio Camacho, Valery Gerasimov, Eric Schmidt, Emine Erdoğan, Michael Schenker, and Jean Tigana. After him are Najib Mikati, Lena Olin, Safet Sušić, Jorge Valdano, Lazarus Chakwera, and Griffin Dunne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 1,640 out of 6,011. Before him are Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Maurice Barrès (1862), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700), Michel Serrault (1928), and Marguerite Perey (1909). After him are Georges Feydeau (1862), Charlotte Bonaparte (1802), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Carausius (300), and Maurice Papon (1910).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Yo-Yo Ma ranks 60. Before him are Marcel Dupré (1886), Louis Marchand (1669), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Georg Muffat (1653), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892). After him are Georges Delerue (1925), Charles Koechlin (1867), André Jolivet (1905), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), and Étienne Méhul (1763).

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