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Babe Didrikson Zaharias

1911 - 1956

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Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (; née Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Babe Didrikson Zaharias has received more than 1,455,400 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Babe Didrikson Zaharias is the 7th most popular golfer (up from 8th in 2019), the 7,982nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,779th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Golfer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GOLFERS

Among golfers, Babe Didrikson Zaharias ranks 7 out of 71. Before her are Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, Seve Ballesteros, Gary Player, and Ben Hogan. After her are Bernhard Langer, Walter Hagen, Lee Trevino, Sam Snead, Greg Norman, and Tom Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Babe Didrikson Zaharias ranks 300. Before her are Ji Xianlin, Charles Mathiesen, Nils Eriksen, Ashok Kumar, Dudley Senanayake, and Bruno Heim. After her are Adam Kozłowiecki, Jeanette Nolan, Georg Dascher, Bruno Venturini, Wilhelm Leichum, and Gilles Grangier. Among people deceased in 1956, Babe Didrikson Zaharias ranks 178. Before her are Manilal Gandhi, Marie Juchacz, Jacques Moeschal, Pierre Allemane, Lajos Asztalos, and Robert Newton. After her are Robert Julius Trumpler, Robert Yerkes, Jan Lechoń, Otto Scheff, Henry Nicholas Ridley, and Khadr El-Touni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Babe Didrikson Zaharias ranks 7,982 out of 20,380. Before her are Adam Darius (1930), Henry Kolker (1874), Rachael Harris (1968), Peter Jason (1944), David Margulies (1937), and Lane Smith (1936). After her are Frank Parker (1916), Robert Young (1907), David Thornton (1953), Eliza Dushku (1980), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), and Clu Gulager (1928).

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Among GOLFERS In United States

Among golfers born in United States, Babe Didrikson Zaharias ranks 5. Before her are Jack Nicklaus (1940), Tiger Woods (1975), Arnold Palmer (1929), and Ben Hogan (1912). After her are Walter Hagen (1892), Lee Trevino (1939), Sam Snead (1912), Tom Watson (1949), Byron Nelson (1912), Gene Sarazen (1902), and Phil Mickelson (1970).

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