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Alex English

1954 - Today

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Alexander English (born January 5, 1954) is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and businessman. A South Carolina native, English played college basketball at the University of South Carolina. He was drafted in the second round of the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex English has received more than 1,171,496 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alex English is the 219th most popular basketball player (up from 254th in 2019), the 9,603rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,375th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alex Englishes by language

Over the past year Alex English has had the most page views in the with 213,372 views, followed by French (8,588), and Italian (8,059). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (560.81%), Portuguese (221.91%), and Finnish (172.42%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alex English ranks 219 out of 1,757. Before him are Joe Fulks, Ruy de Freitas, Zoran Savić, Michel Bonnevie, Christian Laettner, and Spud Webb. After him are Ratko Radovanović, Željko Rebrača, Walt Davis, Rodolfo Choperena, Arijan Komazec, and Viktor Zubkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Alex English ranks 484. Before him are Jim Duggan, Steve Smith, J. Michael Straczynski, Mark Edmondson, João Carlos de Oliveira, and Caroline Cossey. After him are Yuji Takada, Wolfgang Schmidt, Lynne Frederick, Luc-Adolphe Tiao, Tamara Lazakovich, and George Lynch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex English ranks 9,603 out of 20,380. Before him are Ann Doran (1911), Patricia Richardson (1951), George Fisher (1970), Tamara Tunie (1959), Marianna Hill (1942), and D. H. Peligro (1959). After him are Suzanne Ciani (1946), Jeanne Ashworth (1938), Damon Lindelof (1973), Richard Maibaum (1909), Daniel Quinn (1935), and Winston Churchill (1871).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Alex English ranks 115. Before him are Art Mollner (1912), Alonzo Mourning (1970), Clyde Lovellette (1929), Joe Fulks (1921), Christian Laettner (1969), and Spud Webb (1963). After him are Walt Davis (1931), Tim Hardaway (1966), Artis Gilmore (1949), Kawhi Leonard (1991), Ed Macauley (1928), and Penny Hardaway (1971).

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