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Bob Hayes

1942 - 2002

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Robert Lee Hayes (December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002), nicknamed "Bullet Bob", was an American sprinter and professional football player. After winning gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics, he played as a split end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys (for 11 seasons). Hayes is the only athlete to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Hayes has received more than 1,216,997 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Hayes is the 1,648th most popular athlete (down from 1,006th in 2019), the 10,001st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,743rd in 2019) and the 284th most popular American Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bob Hayes ranks 1,648 out of 6,025. Before him are Kazimierz Paździor, Masanori Yusa, Hilda Strike, Munyoro Nyamau, Pentti Linnosvuo, and Luis Martínez. After him are Betty McKinnon, Márton Homonnai, Tom Kiely, Marion Becker, Víctor Peralta, and Akitsugu Konno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Bob Hayes ranks 619. Before him are Per Stig Møller, Monique Ohsan Bellepeau, Guion Bluford, Herbert Gruber, Danny Ongais, and Munyoro Nyamau. After him are Reinhold Durnthaler, Gerhard Roth, Rubén Marcos, Guy Saint-Vil, Dennis Ralston, and Giancarlo Ferrari. Among people deceased in 2002, Bob Hayes ranks 305. Before him are Otis Blackwell, Stanley Wagner, Salman Raduyev, Mitsuo Ikeda, Francisco Cabañas, and Jerome Biffle. After him are Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Joyce Cooper, Pierre Rapsat, Aglaja Veteranyi, Davey Boy Smith, and W. T. Tutte.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Hayes ranks 10,001 out of 20,380. Before him are Nick de Firmian (1957), Clarence Clark (1859), Danny Ongais (1942), Maurice Stokes (1933), Horace Elgin Dodge (1868), and John Lawrence LeConte (1825). After him are Nicholle Tom (1978), Gwynne Shotwell (1963), Tony Kushner (1956), Robert Elswit (1950), John T. Scopes (1900), and Juli Ashton (1969).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Bob Hayes ranks 284. Before him are William Dickey (1874), Frank Waller (1884), Lou Jones (1932), William Fields (1929), Ollan Cassell (1937), and Kim Min-jae (null). After him are William Thompson (1908), Charles Grimes (1935), Charles Kieffer (1910), Dave Wottle (1950), Ronnie Ray Smith (1949), and John Miller (1903).

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