Famous Musicians: Ranked by Popularity (Page 20 of 21) | Who Shares My BirthdayThe most famous musicians in history, ranked by historical popularity: composers, singers and performers with their birthdays, nationality and what they are…A musician becomes notable when their work outlives the moment it was made. It might be a symphony still performed centuries later, a record that changed what popular music sounded like, or a voice that defined a decade. Fame in music also travels: the musicians at the top of this list are known in dozens of languages, far beyond the country where they started.This list brings together the composers, singers, songwriters, instrumentalists and conductors in our database, from Baroque organists to modern pop stars. We rank them by historical popularity, not by sales or personal taste, so the order shows who the world still reads about most.Who is included: everyone in our database whose primary occupation matches this list. Each person must have an English Wikipedia article and a full date of birth recorded on Wikidata. A growing share of people also have an original profile, written to our editorial rules and marked with a Last reviewed date.Most famous musician: Ludwig van Beethoven. Highest historical popularity score (HPI 96.9).Most common birth month: September. 106 of 1,018 were born in September.Living vs deceased: 662 / 356. 65% are still living.Most common nationality: American. 344 people, 34% of the list.Editor-written profiles: 419. 41% have a full original profile so far.951. Oliver Sykes (1986), British: Lead singer of the British rock band Bring Me the Horizon.952. Roddy Ricch (1998), American: American rapper from Compton whose song The Box topped the Hot 100 for eleven weeks.953. Sakura Miyawaki (1998), Japanese: Japanese singer who went from AKB48 and HKT48 to K-pop stardom in Iz*One and Le Sserafim.954. Sam Ryder (1989), British: English singer who came second at Eurovision 2022 with Space Man.955. Schoolboy Q (1986), American: Los Angeles rapper whose album Oxymoron topped the US chart.956. Silia Kapsis (2006), Australian: Sydney-born singer and dancer who represented Cyprus at Eurovision with Liar.957. Stjepan Hauser (1986), Croatian: Croatian cellist and co-founder of the duo 2Cellos.958. Taeyang (1988), South Korean: BIGBANG singer and dancer known for Eyes, Nose, Lips.959. Teddy Sinclair (1986), British: English singer who previously recorded dark electropop under the name Natalia Kills.960. Tusse (2002), Swedish: Congolese-Swedish singer who represented Sweden at Eurovision with Voices.961. Viki Gabor (2007), Polish: Polish singer who won Junior Eurovision on home soil with Superhero.962. YoungBoy Never Broke Again (1999), American: Baton Rouge rapper with several US number one albums.963. Yuja Wang (1987), Chinese: Chinese concert pianist known for her dazzling virtuosity.964. Ángela Aguilar (2003), Mexican-American: Mexican-American singer from the Aguilar family dynasty of ranchera music.965. Anderson .Paak (1986), American: Singer and drummer who formed Silk Sonic with Bruno Mars.966. Conor Maynard (1992), British: English singer who rose from YouTube cover videos to a number one debut album, Contrast, in 2012.967. Daesung (1989), South Korean: South Korean singer and member of the boy band BIGBANG.968. Daneliya Tuleshova (2006), Kazakh: Kazakh singer who represented her country at Junior Eurovision.969. Diljá (2001), Icelandic: Icelandic singer whose Eurovision song Power topped the charts in Iceland.970. Felix (2000), Australian: Australian-born member of the K-pop group Stray Kids.971. Jo Yu-ri (2001), South Korean: South Korean singer from Iz*One who later won global fame as Player 222 in Squid Game.972. Jon Batiste (1986), American: American musician who won Album of the Year and an Oscar for Soul.973. Karina (2000), South Korean: South Korean singer and dancer who leads the K-pop girl group aespa, known for Next Level and Supernova.974. Kim Se-jeong (1996), South Korean: South Korean singer and actress who starred in Business Proposal.975. Latto (1998), American: Atlanta rapper behind the top-three hit Big Energy.976. Lil Tecca (2002), American: Queens rapper whose catchy single Ransom reached the top five of the Billboard Hot 100.977. Lumix (2002), Austrian: Austrian-Italian DJ who produced the hit Monster with Gabry Ponte.978. Mark Lee (1999), Canadian: Canadian rapper and singer from NCT and SuperM who released his solo album The Firstfruit in 2025.979. Marko Bošnjak (2004), Bosnian: Bosnian Croat singer who won the Serbian talent show Pinkove Zvezdice.980. Patricia Janečková (1998–2023), Slovak: Slovak soprano who won a talent show at 12 and died in 2023.981. Sevdaliza (1987), Dutch: Iranian-Dutch avant-garde singer known for Ison and Alibi.982. Shin Ryu-jin (2001), South Korean: South Korean rapper and dancer in the girl group Itzy, known for Dalla Dalla and Wannabe.983. Song Yuqi (1999), Chinese: Chinese singer and dancer in the K-pop girl group I-dle, also a star of Chinese variety TV.984. Victoria De Angelis (2000), Italian: Italian bass player in Måneskin, the band that won Eurovision 2021.985. An Yu-jin (2003), South Korean: South Korean singer who leads the girl group Ive after starting in Iz*One.986. Anastasiya Petryk (2002), Ukrainian: Ukrainian singer who won Junior Eurovision with the ballad Nebo.987. Angelina Jordan (2006), Norwegian: Norwegian jazz singer whose childhood talent show audition went viral.988. Caroline Polachek (1985), American: American art-pop singer-songwriter and former member of the band Chairlift.989. Chaeyeon (2000), South Korean: South Korean singer and dancer from Iz*One who launched a solo career with the EP Hush Rush.990. Choi Ye-na (1999), South Korean: South Korean singer from Iz*One who launched a bright solo career with the EP Smiley.991. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), French: French musician, record producer, and composer992. Kim Chaewon (2000), South Korean: South Korean singer who leads the hit K-pop girl group Le Sserafim after first finding fame in Iz*One.993. Lee Jun-ho (1990), South Korean: 2PM singer turned actor who starred in The Red Sleeve and King the Land.994. Loren Gray (2002), American: American singer who was once the most followed person on TikTok.995. Pia Maria (2003), Austrian: Austrian singer who sang Halo with the DJ Lumix at Eurovision.996. Samara Joy (1999), American: American jazz singer who won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2023 and several more for her albums.997. Samuel (2002), American: Los Angeles-born singer who built a K-pop career in South Korea.998. Steve Lacy (1998), American: American guitarist and singer whose Bad Habit topped the Billboard Hot 100.999. Amira Willighagen (2004), Dutch: Dutch soprano who won Holland's Got Talent singing Puccini as a child.1000. Benee (2000), New Zealand: New Zealand singer whose song Supalonely became a global TikTok hit.How we rank and selectRanking: people are ordered by their Historical Popularity Index (HPI) from Pantheon. HPI combines how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about a person, how many page views those articles get, how evenly the views are spread across languages and how long ago the person lived. People Pantheon does not yet cover are listed after them, ordered by our own popularity score (the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about them).Membership: each person appears in one occupation list only, based on their primary occupation as classified by Pantheon (for example, a queen who wrote poetry is listed as royalty, not as a writer). Kings, queens, emperors, sultans and royal consorts are not listed as politicians or writers: anyone who held a monarch's office on Wikidata, and never served as a president or head of government, counts as royalty. For the few people Pantheon does not cover, we use the primary field recorded in our database.One-line summaries: each summary is an original line written for this site with AI assistance under our editorial rules, then checked against the Wikipedia introduction so no wording is copied.Statistics: every figure on this page is calculated live from our database each time the page loads, so it changes as we add people.Last reviewed: October 2026Sources: Pantheon: Historical Popularity Index (HPI) rankings, Wikidata: birth dates, death dates and occupations, Wikipedia: biographies behind our summaries and popularity scores. Who Shares My Birthday.

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Famous Musicians

The most famous singers, composers and performers in our archive, ranked by historical popularity.

1,018 musicians in our database, ranked by historical popularity. Page 20 of 21.

Most famous musician

Ludwig van Beethoven

Highest historical popularity score (HPI 96.9)

Most common birth month

September

106 of 1,018 were born in September

Living vs deceased

662 / 356

65% are still living

Most common nationality

American

344 people, 34% of the list

Editor-written profiles

419

41% have a full original profile so far

The ranked list (from #951)

How we rank and select

Ranking: people are ordered by their Historical Popularity Index (HPI) from Pantheon. HPI combines how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about a person, how many page views those articles get, how evenly the views are spread across languages and how long ago the person lived. People Pantheon does not yet cover are listed after them, ordered by our own popularity score (the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about them).
Membership: each person appears in one occupation list only, based on their primary occupation as classified by Pantheon (for example, a queen who wrote poetry is listed as royalty, not as a writer). Kings, queens, emperors, sultans and royal consorts are not listed as politicians or writers: anyone who held a monarch's office on Wikidata, and never served as a president or head of government, counts as royalty. For the few people Pantheon does not cover, we use the primary field recorded in our database.
One-line summaries: each summary is an original line written for this site with AI assistance under our editorial rules, then checked against the Wikipedia introduction so no wording is copied.
Statistics: every figure on this page is calculated live from our database each time the page loads, so it changes as we add people.

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Last reviewed: October 2026

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