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Barbara Jones

1937 - Today

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Barbara Pearl Jones (later Slater, born March 26, 1937) is a retired American sprinter. She was part of the 4 × 100 m relay teams that won gold medals at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics and at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games. At the 1952 Olympics she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, aged 15 years 123 days. She later became a member of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Jones has received more than 18,411 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Barbara Jones is the 466th most popular athlete (up from 753rd in 2019), the 6,478th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,290th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.79

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  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Barbara Jones ranks 466 out of 3,059Before her are Harold Osborn, Elfriede Kaun, Inga Gentzel, Tamara Tyshkevich, Bill Holland, and Raimondo D'Inzeo. After her are Ulf Timmermann, Renaud Lavillenie, Klas Lestander, Phil Heath, Udo Beyer, and Jim Lightbody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Barbara Jones ranks 321Before her are Carmelo Bene, David Acevedo, Nancy Wilson, Toribio Ticona Porco, Sergey Ling, and Brian Lumley. After her are Hassan Habibi, Ramsewak Shankar, Ingrid Pitt, Edward Ruscha, Ron Leibman, and Anna Massey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Jones ranks 6,478 out of 18,182Before her are Horace W. Babcock (1912), Kevin McHale (1957), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Don Knotts (1924), José Graziano da Silva (1949), and Gary Gilmore (1940). After her are Al St. John (1892), Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926), Cristine Rose (1951), Wendy Makkena (1958), Charlotte Stewart (1941), and Vikki Carr (1941).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Barbara Jones ranks 95Before her are Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962), Lewis Sheldon (1874), Dexter Jackson (1969), Evelyn Ashford (1957), Harold Osborn (1899), and Bill Holland (1874). After her are Phil Heath (1979), Jim Lightbody (1882), Lillian Copeland (1904), Ethel Catherwood (1908), Norbert Schemansky (1924), and Ed Ablowich (1913).