1855 - 1938
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 105,704 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Axel Paulsen is the 3rd most popular skater, the 72nd most popular biography from Norway (up from 106th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Skater.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among skaters, Axel Paulsen ranks 3 out of 315. Before him are Sonja Henie and Ulrich Salchow. After him are Gillis Grafström, Katarina Witt, Tonya Harding, Clas Thunberg, Oleg Protopopov, Ondrej Nepela, Karl Schäfer, Ludmila Belousova, and Ard Schenk.
1912 - 1969
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 1
1877 - 1949
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 2
1855 - 1938
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 3
1893 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 4
1965 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 5
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 6
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 7
1932 - 2023
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 8
1951 - 1989
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 9
1909 - 1976
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 10
1935 - 2017
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 11
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1855, Axel Paulsen ranks 19. Before him are Robert de Montesquiou, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Arthur Nikisch, Robert Koldewey, Paul-Jacques Curie, and Georges Rodenbach. After him are Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Živojin Mišić, Inukai Tsuyoshi, Anatoly Lyadov, Vlaho Bukovac, and Narayana Guru. Among people deceased in 1938, Axel Paulsen ranks 53. Before him are Marianne von Werefkin, Nikolay Krestinsky, Aleksandr Kuprin, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Robert Wiene, and Alfonsina Storni. After him are Leo Frobenius, César Vallejo, Ludwig Borchardt, Yevhen Konovalets, Gillis Grafström, and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko.
1855 - 1921
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 13
1855 - 1944
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 14
1855 - 1922
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 15
1855 - 1925
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 16
1855 - 1941
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 17
1855 - 1898
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 18
1855 - 1938
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 19
1855 - 1944
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 20
1855 - 1921
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 21
1855 - 1932
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 22
1855 - 1914
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 23
1855 - 1922
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 24
1855 - 1928
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 25
1860 - 1938
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 47
1883 - 1938
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 48
1870 - 1938
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 49
1872 - 1938
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 50
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 51
1892 - 1938
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 52
1855 - 1938
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 53
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 54
1892 - 1938
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 55
1863 - 1938
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 56
1891 - 1938
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 57
1893 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 58
1883 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 59
Among people born in Norway, Axel Paulsen ranks 72 out of 927. Before him are Magnus Barefoot (1073), Thorvald Stoltenberg (1931), Kjell Askildsen (1929), Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812), Theodor Kittelsen (1857), and Sverre Fehn (1924). After him are Sigurd the Crusader (1090), Johan Svendsen (1840), Magnus IV of Norway (1115), Anders Behring Breivik (1979), Arne Næss (1912), and Herbjørg Wassmo (1942).
1073 - 1103
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 66
1931 - 2018
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 67
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 68
1812 - 1885
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 69
1857 - 1914
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 70
1924 - 2009
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 71
1855 - 1938
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 72
1090 - 1130
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 73
1840 - 1911
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 74
1115 - 1139
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 75
1979 - Present
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 76
1912 - 2009
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 77
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 78
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), Knut Johannesen (1933), Sverre Farstad (1920), Finn Helgesen (1919), Roald Aas (1928), Sten Stensen (1947), Odd Lundberg (1917), and Johann Olav Koss (1968).
1912 - 1969
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 1
1855 - 1938
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 2
1904 - 1969
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 3
1923 - 2013
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4
1938 - 2015
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 5
1933 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 6
1920 - 1978
HPI: 46.26
Rank: 7
1919 - 2011
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 8
1928 - 2012
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 9
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.38
Rank: 10
1917 - 1983
HPI: 44.17
Rank: 11
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.04
Rank: 12