TENNIS PLAYER

Björn Borg

1956 - Today

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Björn Rune Borg (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbjœːɳ ˈbɔrj] ; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Björn Borg has received more than 8,295,307 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Björn Borg is the most popular tennis player (up from 3rd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 58th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Tennis Player.

Björn Borg is most famous for his tennis career. He is one of the most successful tennis players in history, having won 11 Grand Slam singles titles and five Grand Slam doubles titles.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.3M

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  • 68.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Björn Borg ranks 1 out of 1,569After him are Novak Djokovic, Rod Laver, René Lacoste, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Ilie Năstase, Fred Perry, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Roger Federer, and Martina Navratilova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Björn Borg ranks 8Before him are Mel Gibson, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Steve Ballmer, Lars von Trier, and Christoph Waltz. After him are Michel Houellebecq, Tsai Ing-wen, Christine Lagarde, Paolo Rossi, Bryan Cranston, and Khaled Mashal.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Björn Borg ranks 62 out of 1,879Before him are Astrid of Sweden (1905), Anita Ekberg (1931), Björn Ulvaeus (1945), Gunnar Nordahl (1921), Folke Bernadotte (1895), and Gustav III of Sweden (1746). After him are Henning Mankell (1948), Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Arne Tiselius (1902), and Hilma af Klint (1862).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Sweden

Among tennis players born in Sweden, Björn Borg ranks 1After him are Mats Wilander (1964), Stefan Edberg (1966), Sven Davidson (1928), Lennart Bergelin (1925), Anders Järryd (1961), Gunnar Setterwall (1881), Ulf Schmidt (1934), Jonas Björkman (1972), Wollmar Boström (1878), Robin Söderling (1984), and Joakim Nyström (1963).