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Bob Lanier

1948 - 2022

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Robert Jerry Lanier Jr. (September 10, 1948 – May 10, 2022) was an American professional basketball player. He played center for the Detroit Pistons and the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Lanier has received more than 553,997 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bob Lanier is the 250th most popular basketball player (up from 270th in 2019), the 10,566th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,678th in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Bob Lanier ranks 250 out of 1,757. Before him are Tiit Sokk, Sam Bowie, Mirsad Türkcan, Nikola Mirotić, Rick Adelman, and Vassilis Spanoulis. After him are Peja Stojaković, Shawn Kemp, Donald Piper, Bogdan Bogdanović, Rajko Žižić, and Joe Dumars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Bob Lanier ranks 636. Before him are Ang Rita, David Marks, Robert Taylor, Patricia A. McKillip, Marcia Strassman, and Adolfas Šleževičius. After him are Len Wein, T Bone Burnett, Lester Bangs, Mildrette Netter, Susan Bernard, and Lewis Black. Among people deceased in 2022, Bob Lanier ranks 557. Before him are Josephine Tewson, Adriana Hoffmann, Vic Elford, Héctor Pulido, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, and Adolfas Šleževičius. After him are Nicki Aycox, Beatrice Mintz, David McCullough, Jürgen Heinsch, Johanna Lüttge, and András Törőcsik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Lanier ranks 10,566 out of 20,380. Before him are Hope Emerson (1897), Hasim Rahman (1972), Alan Curtis (1909), Terry Kiser (1939), Tony Thompson (1954), and Edith Massey (1918). After him are David Dixon Porter (1813), Shirley Stobs (1942), Timothy Weah (2000), Bobby Rahal (1953), Nicki Aycox (1975), and David Gates (1940).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Bob Lanier ranks 131. Before him are Horace Grant (1965), George McGinnis (1950), Dean Smith (1931), Paul Pierce (1977), Sam Bowie (1961), and Rick Adelman (1946). After him are Shawn Kemp (1969), Donald Piper (1911), Joe Dumars (1963), Vern Mikkelsen (1928), Michael Cooper (1956), and Doug Collins (1951).

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