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Yoko Ono

1933 - Today

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Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana as オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo in the Plastic Ono Band. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoko Ono is the 6th most popular artist (down from 4th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 17th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Artist.

Yoko Ono is most famous for being the wife of John Lennon.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Yoko Ono ranks 6 out of 125. Before her are Hokusai, Andy Warhol, Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, and M. C. Escher. After her are Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, Hiroshige, and Joseph Beuys.

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Among people born in 1933, Yoko Ono ranks 8. Before her are Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karl Lagerfeld, Garrincha, Roman Polanski, Dalida, and Montserrat Caballé. After her are Michael Caine, Lina Medina, Claudio Abbado, Francisco Gento, William Anders, and Heinrich Rohrer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Ono ranks 22 out of 6,245. Before her are Hideki Tojo (1884), Emperor Taishō (1879), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Shinzō Abe (1954), Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), and Hiroo Onoda (1922). After her are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Osamu Dazai (1909), Lee Myung-bak (1941), and Kenzaburō Ōe (1935).

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Among ARTISTS In Japan

Among artists born in Japan, Yoko Ono ranks 2. Before her are Hokusai (1760). After her are Hiroshige (1797), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hasui Kawase (1883), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), and Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993).

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