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Boy Charlton

1907 - 1975

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Andrew Murray "Boy" Charlton (12 August 1907 – 10 December 1975) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1920s and 1930s who won a gold medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boy Charlton has received more than 324,748 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Boy Charlton is the 218th most popular swimmer (down from 159th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Australia (down from 483rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Australian Swimmer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Boy Charlton ranks 218 out of 709. Before him are Matt Vogel, Louis Handley, Jenny Thompson, Shirley Babashoff, Petra Thümer, and Josephine McKim. After him are Camille Muffat, Sergey Koplyakov, Judy Grinham, Pablo Morales, Jon Henricks, and Oussama Mellouli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Boy Charlton ranks 400. Before him are Ruby Myers, Mehboob Khan, Albert Gore Sr., Allan Jones, Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, and Peggy Shannon. After him are Israel Albert Horowitz, Walter Reuther, Tex Gibbons, Louis MacNeice, Phil Edwards, and Krishna Hutheesing. Among people deceased in 1975, Boy Charlton ranks 270. Before him are Marjorie Main, Larry Parks, Bram Fischer, Lionel Trilling, Bob Wills, and Padmaja Naidu. After him is Bruno Müller.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Boy Charlton ranks 494 out of 1,143. Before him are Robbie McEwen (1972), Anthony Šerić (1979), Robert Taylor (1963), Frederick McCubbin (1855), Kate Allen (1970), and Miles Franklin (1879). After him are Katherine Langford (1996), Paul McNamee (1954), Frank B. Zoltowski (1957), Mark Bosnich (1972), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (1994), and Nicky Whelan (1981).

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Among SWIMMERS In Australia

Among swimmers born in Australia, Boy Charlton ranks 15. Before him are Harold Hardwick (1888), Mina Wylie (1891), Cecil Healy (1881), Shane Gould (1956), Kevin Berry (1945), and Gail Neall (1955). After him are Jon Henricks (1935), David Theile (1938), Ian O'Brien (1947), Giaan Rooney (1982), Beverley Whitfield (1954), and Sandra Morgan (1942).

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