Famous musicians
Singers, composers, conductors and other musicians with articles in at least 30 Wikimedia projects, with genres, dates of birth and death, citizenship and number of notable works. One row per person.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| rank | Rank | integer | Position in this list by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (ties share a rank). |
| name | Name | string | — |
| wikidata | Wikidata | entity | Wikidata item for the person. |
| description | Description | string | Wikidata's short description of the person. |
| occupation | Occupation | string | The person's main occupation as classified by Pantheon. |
| genre | Genre | string | Up to three genres Wikidata lists for the person. |
| birth_date | Born | date | Date of birth, at the precision Wikidata records (Pantheon's birth year if Wikidata has none). |
| death_date | Died | date | Date of death; blank if living or unknown. |
| country | Citizenship | country | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code when the person has a single present-day country of citizenship in Wikidata. |
| citizenship | Countries of citizenship | string | Countries of citizenship recorded in Wikidata (preferred ones only, if marked). |
| birth_country | Birth country | country | Present-day country of birth (Pantheon) — useful for people whose citizenship was a state that no longer exists. |
| notable_works | Notable works | integer | Number of notable works (P800) Wikidata lists for the person. |
| sitelinks | Sitelinks | integer | Number of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia pages about the person — a rough measure of worldwide notability. |
| hpi | HPI | number | Pantheon's Historical Popularity Index (0–100). |
| image | Image | image | Picture from Wikimedia Commons. |
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