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Ben Adams

1890 - 1961

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Benjamin Willard Adams (March 31, 1890 – March 14, 1961) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the standing jumps. At the 1912 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the standing high jump and a bronze in the standing long jump, while his elder brother Platt Adams won a gold and a silver, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Adams has received more than 800,104 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Adams is the 266th most popular athlete (up from 332nd in 2019), the 4,561st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,651st in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 0.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ben Adams ranks 266 out of 6,025. Before him are Giulio Gaudini, Dominik Hašek, Tatyana Kazankina, Erik Lundqvist, John Ljunggren, and Frederick Lorz. After him are Robert Kerr, Peter Snell, Inessa Kravets, Francis Lane, Jonathan Edwards, and Marlies Göhr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Ben Adams ranks 138. Before him are Harry Hopkins, Traugott Herr, Oswald de Andrade, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Frank Morgan, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. After him are Joachim von Kortzfleisch, Olga Desmond, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Karl Freund, Joseph Helffrich, and Alexander Granach. Among people deceased in 1961, Ben Adams ranks 98. Before him are Tsuru Aoki, Nina Bari, Belinda Lee, H.D., Alexander Goldenweiser, and Max Weber. After him are Maurice Tourneur, Govind Ballabh Pant, Leonhard Frank, Mazo de la Roche, Morris Travers, and Walter Bedell Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Adams ranks 4,561 out of 20,380. Before him are Nick Cassavetes (1959), William Livingston (1723), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Gene Wolfe (1931), Pete Maravich (1947), and Bobby Vinton (1935). After him are Michael Chang (1972), Dick Miller (1928), Stephen J. Cannell (1941), Bo Hopkins (1942), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829), and Frank Frazetta (1928).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Ben Adams ranks 55. Before him are John Paine (1870), Michael Johnson (1967), Evelyn Furtsch (1914), Arthur L. Newton (1883), Walter Tewksbury (1876), and Frederick Lorz (1884). After him are Francis Lane (1874), Evelyne Hall (1909), Donald Lippincott (1893), Ed Ablowich (1913), Harold Osborn (1899), and William Hoyt (1875).

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