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Cliff Thorburn

1948 - Today

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Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final. He is generally recognised as the sport's first world champion from outside the United Kingdom—since Australian Horace Lindrum's 1952 title is usually disregarded—and he remains the only world champion from the Americas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cliff Thorburn has received more than 806,482 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Cliff Thorburn is the 20th most popular snooker (up from 23rd in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Canada (down from 726th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Snooker.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Cliff Thorburns by language

Over the past year Cliff Thorburn has had the most page views in the with 95,947 views, followed by German (4,100), and Chinese (3,108). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (208.37%), Portuguese (124.08%), and Egyptian Arabic (46.25%)

Among SNOOKERS

Among snookers, Cliff Thorburn ranks 20 out of 67. Before her are Marco Fu, Neil Robertson, Terry Griffiths, Walter Donaldson, Alan McManus, and Ali Carter. After her are Peter Ebdon, Ken Doherty, Shaun Murphy, Ding Junhui, John Spencer, and Stuart Bingham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Cliff Thorburn ranks 713. Before her are Tom Scott, Oleg Dolmatov, Aleksandr Timoshinin, Lynne Thigpen, István Szívós, and David Davis. After her are Csaba Hegedűs, Brian Stableford, El Kazovsky, Dick Quax, Tamás Wichmann, and Mario Aldo Montano.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Cliff Thorburn ranks 745 out of 1,622. Before her are Robbie Amell (1988), Lorne Loomer (1937), Joe Sakic (1969), Henry Lau (1989), Alice Eastwood (1859), and Horst Bulau (1962). After her are Christian Cage (1973), Gilles Brassard (1955), Jeremy Ratchford (1965), Montgomery Wilson (1909), George Eaton (1945), and Chris Bumstead (1995).

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Among SNOOKERS In Canada

Among snookers born in Canada, Cliff Thorburn ranks 1. 

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