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Clarke Scholes

1930 - 2010

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Clarke Currie Scholes (November 25, 1930 – February 5, 2010) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic champion. Scholes was awarded the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. His posted time of 57.4 seconds for the event matched that of fellow competitor Hiroshi Suzuki of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarke Scholes has received more than 25,045 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Clarke Scholes is the 30th most popular swimmer (down from 26th in 2019), the 6,962nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,430th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Swimmer.

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  • 45.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Clarke Scholes ranks 30 out of 392. Before him are Greta Johansson, Oleksandr Sydorenko, Henry Taylor, Frederick Lane, Helene Madison, and Kusuo Kitamura. After him are Ferenc Csik, Ian Thorpe, George Hodgson, Max Schöne, Hilde Schrader, and Albina Osipowich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Clarke Scholes ranks 380. Before him are Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Theodore Freeman, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Alakbar Mammadov, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, and Giorgio Ghezzi. After him are Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Alan Shugart, Leonid Abalkin, Vera T. Sós, and Innes Ireland. Among people deceased in 2010, Clarke Scholes ranks 276. Before him are Armand Razafindratandra, Harry Vos, Olga Guillot, Boris Tishchenko, Pedro Dellacha, and István Bilek. After him are Nino Defilippis, Maury Chaykin, Hal Connolly, Chushiro Hayashi, Edoardo Sanguineti, and Vladimir Maslachenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clarke Scholes ranks 6,962 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert John Braidwood (1907), Ken Foree (1948), John P. Ryan (1936), David Filo (1966), Christine Estabrook (1952), and Dwyane Wade (1982). After him are Cleveland Abbe (1838), Irwin Winkler (1931), Kathy Acker (1947), McLean Stevenson (1927), Garrick Ohlsson (1948), and David E. Kelley (1956).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Clarke Scholes ranks 10. Before him are Duke Kahanamoku (1890), Don Schollander (1946), Ann Curtis (1926), Ethelda Bleibtrey (1902), Charles Daniels (1885), and Helene Madison (1913). After him are Albina Osipowich (1911), Helen Johns (1914), Jimmy McLane (1930), Matt Biondi (1965), Irene Guest (1900), and Bill Smith (1924).

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