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{{Short description|English guitarist (born 1944)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Jimmy Page
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100|OBE}}
| image              = Jimmy Page at the Echo music award 2013.jpg
| caption            = Page in 2013
| birth_name         = James Patrick Page
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1944|01|09}}
| birth_place        = [[Heston]], [[Middlesex]], England
| discography        = [[Jimmy Page discography]]
| years_active       = 1957–present
| occupation         = {{flatlist|
* Musician
* record producer
* songwriter 
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| spouse             = {{ubl|{{marriage|Patricia Ecker|1986|1995|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Jimena Gomez Paratcha|1995|2008|end=divorced}}}}
| children           = 5, including [[Scarlet Page|Scarlet]]
| partner            = [[Scarlett Sabet]] (2014–present)
| net_worth          = 
| module             = {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| embed              = yes
| instrument         = Guitar<!--- If you think an instrument should be listed, a discussion to reach consensus is needed first --->
| genre              = {{flatlist|
* [[Rock music|Rock]]
* [[blues]]
* [[folk music|folk]]
* [[hard rock]]
* [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
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| label             = {{flatlist|
* [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
* [[Swan Song Records|Swan Song]]
* [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
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| past_member_of   = {{flatlist|
* [[The Yardbirds]]
* [[Led Zeppelin]]
* [[The Firm (rock band)|The Firm]]
* [[Coverdale–Page]]
* [[Page and Plant]]
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| website            = 
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'''James Patrick Page''' (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Led Zeppelin]].

Page began his career as a studio [[session musician]] in London and, by the mid-1960s, was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Britain. He was a member of [[the Yardbirds]] from 1966 to 1968. When the Yardbirds broke up, he founded Led Zeppelin, which was active from 1968 to 1980. Following the death of Led Zeppelin drummer [[John Bonham]], he participated in a number of musical groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s, more specifically [[XYZ (English band)|XYZ]], [[The Firm (rock band)|the Firm]], [[the Honeydrippers]], [[Coverdale–Page]], and [[Page and Plant]]. Since 2000, Page has participated in various guest performances with many artists, both live and in studio recordings, and participated in a one-off Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007 that was released as the 2012 concert film ''[[Celebration Day (film)|Celebration Day]]''.  Along with [[the Edge]] and [[Jack White]], he participated in the 2008 documentary ''[[It Might Get Loud]]''.

Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time.{{sfn|George-Warren|Romanowski Bashe|Pareles|2001|p=773}}{{sfn|Gulla|2009|p=151}}<ref name="allmusicpage">{{cite web|last=Prato|first=Greg|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-page-mn0000089021|title=Jimmy Page Biography|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=11 November 2008}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number three in their 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", behind [[Jimi Hendrix]] and [[Eric Clapton]], and ranking 3rd again in 2023 behind [[Chuck Berry]] and Jimi Hendrix.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Outrider |date=25 August 1998|magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/outrider-250084/ |last=Fricke |first=David |access-date=15 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |title=100 Greatest Guitarists |date=18 December 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-guitarists-153675/ritchie-blackmore-52823/ |access-date=15 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2023-10-13 |title=The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2010, he was ranked number two in [[Gibson Guitar Corporation|Gibson]]'s list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]''{{'}}s "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". He was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] twice: once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).
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