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Alfréd Hajós

1878 - 1955

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Alfréd Hajós (1 February 1878 – 12 November 1955) was a Hungarian swimmer, football (soccer) player, referee, manager, and career architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfréd Hajós has received more than 101,031 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfréd Hajós is the 4th most popular swimmer (up from 5th in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 229th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Swimmer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Alfréd Hajós ranks 4 out of 392. Before him are Johnny Weissmuller, Michael Phelps, and Mark Spitz. After him are Gertrude Ederle, Duke Kahanamoku, Rie Mastenbroek, Roland Matthes, Don Schollander, Arne Borg, Kornelia Ender, and Greta Andersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Alfréd Hajós ranks 66. Before him are Hans Ledwinka, Eino Leino, Paul Troost, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Heitz, and Manuel L. Quezon. After him are Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Carl Sandburg, Erich Mühsam, Jack Johnson, and Ernest King. Among people deceased in 1955, Alfréd Hajós ranks 53. Before him are Henri Delaunay, Erich Brandenberger, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Kim Seong-su, and Otto Braun. After him are Hubert Cecil Booth, Antanas Merkys, Robert W. Wood, Tin Ujević, Cy Young, and Olga Khokhlova.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Alfréd Hajós ranks 214 out of 866. Before him are Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Nicholas Kaldor (1908), Ferenc Fricsay (1914), Eugene Ormandy (1899), Josef Dobrovský (1753), and Arpad Elo (1903). After him are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Antal Doráti (1906), István Dobi (1898), Ödön Lechner (1845), and Paul Lukas (1894).

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Among SWIMMERS In Hungary

Among swimmers born in Hungary, Alfréd Hajós ranks 1. After him are István Bárány (1907), Katalin Szőke (1935), Ferenc Csik (1913), Judit Temes (1930), Imre Zachár (1890), Ilona Novák (1925), Valéria Gyenge (1933), Katinka Hosszú (1989), Krisztina Egerszegi (1974), László Cseh (1985), and Géza Kádas (1926).

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