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Bob Knight

1940 - 2023

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Robert Montgomery "Bobby" Knight (October 25, 1940 – November 1, 2023) was an American men's college basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", he won 902 NCAA Division I men's basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement and sixth all-time record at the time of his death. Knight was the head coach of the Army Black Knights (1965–1971), the Indiana Hoosiers (1971–2000), and the Texas Tech Red Raiders (2001–2008). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Knight has received more than 5,877,600 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bob Knight is the 289th most popular coach (up from 300th in 2019), the 9,478th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,973rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Coach.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.9M

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  • 51.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COACHES

Among coaches, Bob Knight ranks 289 out of 471. Before him are Tedj Bensaoula, John Jensen, Rafael Iriondo, Gustavo Alfaro, Italo Galbiati, and Paweł Janas. After him are Bob Bradley, Ignacio Prieto, Júlio César Leal, Pepe Mel, Željko Buvač, and Nicanor de Carvalho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bob Knight ranks 505. Before him are George Adams, Dallas Long, Carl von Essen, Brigitte Kronauer, Lance Larson, and Gary Kurtz. After him are Jutta Heine, Jeroen Brouwers, Austin Pendleton, Judy Cornwell, Annemarie Zimmermann, and Tom Brokaw. Among people deceased in 2023, Bob Knight ranks 524. Before him are Walter Mirisch, Vahidin Musemić, John Jakes, Jean-Jacques Favier, Richard Davis, and Samuel T. Durrance. After him are Nigel Lawson, Inga Swenson, Parkash Singh Badal, Andy Rourke, Christo Jivkov, and George Maharis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Knight ranks 9,478 out of 20,380. Before him are Wanda Hendrix (1928), Jan Peerce (1904), Alex Morgan (1989), Alma Richards (1890), Aisha Tyler (1970), and Tim LaHaye (1926). After him are James Meredith (1933), Abigail Johnson (1961), William H. McRaven (1955), Ann Sothern (1909), Hanya Yanagihara (1974), and Meg Cabot (1967).

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Among COACHES In United States

Among coaches born in United States, Bob Knight ranks 6. Before him are Phil Jackson (1945), Gregg Popovich (1949), Richard Williams (1942), John Madden (1936), and Bill Belichick (1952). After him are Bob Bradley (1958), Flip Saunders (1955), Michael Malone (1971), Steve Sampson (1957), Billy Donovan (1965), and Quin Snyder (1966).

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