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Alvah Meyer

1888 - 1939

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Alvah T. Meyer (July 18, 1888 – December 19, 1939) was an American sprint runner. He was a Jewish member of the Irish American Athletic Club, which also included Abel Kiviat and Myer Prinstein. He was born in New York City on July 18, 1888. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alvah Meyer has received more than 21,042 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alvah Meyer is the 1,160th most popular athlete (down from 945th in 2019), the 8,639th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,513th in 2019) and the 220th most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Alvah Meyer ranks 1,160 out of 6,025. Before him are Edwin Mills, Ilona Gusenbauer, Henri Helle, Jack Shea, Leni Junker, and Nikolai Gorbachev. After him are Heinz Fütterer, Karl-Friedrich Haas, Romano Bonagura, Heinz Körvers, Lennox Miller, and René Bougnol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Alvah Meyer ranks 235. Before him are Carlos Quintanilla, David Jacobs, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Andrea Andreen, Axel Janse, and Maurice Schilles. After him are Bob Glendenning, J. B. Kripalani, Cathleen Nesbitt, Natalena Koroleva, Eduard Bass, and Osvald Moberg. Among people deceased in 1939, Alvah Meyer ranks 146. Before him are Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Owen Moore, Frank Wild, Caius Welcker, Perikles Kakousis, and Lili Bech. After him are James Parrott, Walter Gordon, Louis Eugène Roy, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, Boris Shchukin, and Joseph Lyons.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alvah Meyer ranks 8,639 out of 20,380. Before him are Forrest Tucker (1919), Jerry O'Connell (1974), Arto Lindsay (1953), Milton H. Greene (1922), Thomas Say (1787), and Ben Burtt (1948). After him are Rosalind Chao (1957), Tom Florie (1897), Wesley Ruggles (1889), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Kevin Kelly (1952), and Chris Barnes (1967).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Alvah Meyer ranks 220. Before him are Cliff Bourland (1921), Willie Steele (1923), Jay Silvester (1937), Paul Drayton (1939), Joseph Dempsey (1875), and Jack Shea (1910). After him are Ivan Brown (1908), Guinn Smith (1920), Steve Anderson (1906), Earl Young (1941), Frederick Moloney (1882), and Herman Groman (1882).

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