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Cliff Barker

1921 - 1998

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Clifford "Cliff" Eugene Barker (January 15, 1921 – March 17, 1998) was an American basketball player who won the gold medal with the USA national basketball team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and two national championships at the University of Kentucky. While at the University of Kentucky, Barker was an All-SEC (Second Team) and All-SEC Tournament guard during the 1947–48 and 1948–49 seasons. A member of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, Barker was a B-17 Flying Fortress gunner and spent 16 months as a prisoner-of-war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cliff Barker has received more than 33,521 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Cliff Barker is the 390th most popular basketball player (down from 318th in 2019), the 13,015th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,464th in 2019) and the 204th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 34k

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  • 39.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Cliff Barker ranks 390 out of 1,757. Before her are Felipe Reyes, Nikos Zisis, Bojan Bogdanović, Rui Hachimura, Bill Cartwright, and Jan Veselý. After her are Cedric Maxwell, Kyle Anderson, Fabricio Oberto, İbrahim Kutluay, Paul Silas, and Alex Groza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Cliff Barker ranks 457. Before her are Tommy Noonan, Monty Hall, John Lindsay, Wilbur Thompson, Harold Camping, and Robert Muldoon. After her are Janet Blair, Henry Cockburn, Tom Kilburn, Ted Ditchburn, Jack Valenti, and Terence Cooke. Among people deceased in 1998, Cliff Barker ranks 318. Before her are Donald Woods, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Barbara Burke, Ruth Clifford, Reidar Kvammen, and Muriel Humphrey Brown. After her are Catherine Cookson, Moshood Abiola, Albert Gore Sr., Dane Clark, Fred Wacker, and Gene Raymond.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cliff Barker ranks 13,015 out of 20,380. Before her are Lew Cody (1884), Rod La Rocque (1898), Joseph Cedar (1968), Linda Purl (1955), Catherine Burns (1945), and Paul Steinhardt (1952). After her are Diedrich Bader (1966), David Sedaris (1956), Frederica Sagor Maas (1900), D. B. Sweeney (1961), DJ Shadow (1972), and Adrienne Shelly (1966).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Cliff Barker ranks 204. Before her are Sam Perkins (1961), Mike Bantom (1951), Chet Walker (1940), Bob Boozer (1937), Greg Oden (1988), and Bill Cartwright (1957). After her are Cedric Maxwell (1955), Kyle Anderson (1993), Paul Silas (1943), Alex Groza (1926), Bernard King (1956), and Glen Rice (1967).

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