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Béla Károlyi

1942 - 2024

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Béla Károlyi (Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈkaːroji]; September 13, 1942 – November 15, 2024) was a Romanian and American gymnastics coach of Hungarian origin. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralized training system for gymnastics. One of his earliest protégés was Nadia Comăneci, the first Olympic Games gymnast to be awarded a perfect score. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Károlyi has received more than 2,903,075 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Béla Károlyi is the 15,547th most popular politician (down from 12,304th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 278th in 2019) and the 140th most popular Romanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Béla Károlyi ranks 15,547 out of 19,576Before him are Rana Bahadur Shah, Hadja Lahbib, William R. Day, Madhavrao I, Rashid Nurgaliyev, and Marc Bazin. After him are Naveen Patnaik, Liese Prokop, Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Facundo Machaín, Octa of Kent, and C. E. Ruthenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Béla Károlyi ranks 548Before him are Antonio Martino, Kenneth Lay, Brandon Carter, Anita Roddick, Paul-Eerik Rummo, and Zygfryd Szołtysik. After him are Robert Costanzo, Lesley Turner Bowrey, Brandon deWilde, Frankie Lymon, Guus Kuijer, and Bob Einstein. Among people deceased in 2024, Béla Károlyi ranks 326Before him are Jadwiga Barańska, Amaral, Hama Amadou, Charles Cyphers, Artur Chilingarov, and Thomas E. Kurtz. After him are Robert Pickton, Luciano Sušanj, Martin Mull, Alan Rees, Robert H. Dennard, and Peter Armbruster.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Béla Károlyi ranks 432 out of 844Before him are Michael Klein (1959), Ádám Bodor (1936), Sándor Schwartz (1909), Lőrinc Schlauch (1824), Grigore Antipa (1867), and Alexandra Stan (1989). After him are Alexandru Neagu (1948), Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu (1944), Atanase Sciotnic (1942), Valeria Bufanu (1946), Mircea David (1914), and Vintilă Cossini (1913).

Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Béla Károlyi ranks 140Before him are Dimitar Petkov (1858), Nicolae Crețulescu (1812), Gavril Dejeu (1932), Nicolae Golescu (1810), Ion Emanuel Florescu (1819), and Petre S. Aurelian (1833). After him are Ștefan Golescu (1809), Theodor Rosetti (1837), Victor Ciorbea (1954), Teodor Meleșcanu (1941), Gheorghe Mironescu (1874), and Manolache Costache Epureanu (1823).