BASEBALL PLAYER

Hideo Nomo

1968 - Today

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Hideo Nomo (野茂 英雄, Nomo Hideo, born 31 August 1968) is a Japanese former baseball pitcher who played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He achieved early success in his native country, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1990 to 1994. He then exploited a loophole to free himself from his contract, and became the first Japanese major leaguer to permanently relocate to MLB in the United States, debuting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideo Nomo has received more than 869,269 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hideo Nomo is the 30th most popular baseball player, the 1,505th most popular biography from Japan and the 3rd most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hideo Nomos by language

Over the past year Hideo Nomo has had the most page views in the with 927,921 views, followed by English (150,305), and Chinese (49,976). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malay (169.28%), Min Nan (163.43%), and Malagasy (111.87%)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Hideo Nomo ranks 30 out of 91Before him are Walter Johnson, Roger Clemens, Frank Robinson, Satchel Paige, Mark McGwire, and Rogers Hornsby. After him are Shohei Ohtani, Tom Seaver, Carl Yastrzemski, Bob Gibson, Curt Schilling, and Mariano Rivera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Hideo Nomo ranks 308Before him are Kristin Chenoweth, David Hewlett, Tanja Ribič, Bärbel Bas, Bennet Omalu, and Robin Li. After him are Kiyohiko Azuma, Akihiko Hoshide, Princess Delphine of Belgium, Leonid Slutsky, José Luis Sierra, and Yang Xinhai.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideo Nomo ranks 1,505 out of 6,245Before him are Shuhei Nishida (1910), Shōichi Nakagawa (1953), Kenta Hasegawa (1965), Minoru Honda (1913), Atsuji Miyahara (1958), and Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936). After him are Masaaki Kato (1958), Takeshi Kawaharazuka (1975), Gen Urobuchi (1972), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), and Masako Yoshida (1957).

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Hideo Nomo ranks 3Before him are Sadaharu Oh (1940), and Ichiro Suzuki (1973). After him are Shohei Ohtani (1994), Hideki Matsui (1974), Yu Darvish (1986), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998), and Kenta Maeda (1988).