SKATER

Axel Paulsen

1855 - 1938

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Axel Paulsen (18 July 1855 – 9 February 1938) was a Norwegian figure skater and speed skater. He invented the figure skating Axel jump and held the world title in speed skating from 1882 to 1890. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Axel Paulsen has received more than 112,633 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Axel Paulsen is the 5th most popular skater (down from 3rd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Norway (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Axel Paulsen ranks 5 out of 483. Before him are Sonja Henie, Adelina Sotnikova, Oleg Protopopov, and Ulrich Salchow. After him are Tonya Harding, Clas Thunberg, Katarina Witt, Gillis Grafström, Ondrej Nepela, Ivar Ballangrud, and Ludmila Belousova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Axel Paulsen ranks 25. Before him are Robert de Montesquiou, Georges Rodenbach, Narayana Guru, Guido Adler, Anatoly Lyadov, and Vlaho Bukovac. After him are Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Christian Bohr, Evelyn De Morgan, Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Vsevolod Garshin, and Alexandre Darracq. Among people deceased in 1938, Axel Paulsen ranks 60. Before him are César Vallejo, Francis Jammes, Leo Frobenius, Ödön von Horváth, Alexandru Averescu, and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko. After him are Ludwig Borchardt, Edmund Landau, Nicola Romeo, William McDougall, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, and Cao Kun.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Axel Paulsen ranks 86 out of 1,039. Before him are Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Sigurd the Crusader (1090), Jan Garbarek (1947), Tarjei Vesaas (1897), Thorleif Haug (1894), and Jonas Lie (1833). After him are Johan Svendsen (1840), Odvar Nordli (1927), Otto Sverdrup (1854), Arne Næss (1912), Erna Solberg (1961), and Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway (1973).

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Among SKATERS In Norway

Among skaters born in Norway, Axel Paulsen ranks 2. Before him are Sonja Henie (1912). After him are Ivar Ballangrud (1904), Hjalmar Andersen (1923), Fred Anton Maier (1938), Roald Aas (1928), Bernt Evensen (1905), Knut Johannesen (1933), Finn Helgesen (1919), Odd Lundberg (1917), Johann Olav Koss (1968), and Alexia Bryn (1889).

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