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Cynisca

430 BC - 389 BC

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Cynisca (; or Kyniska, Greek: Κυνίσκα; born c. 442 BC) was a wealthy Spartan princess. She is famous for being the first woman to win at the Olympic Games, competing in the sport of chariot racing. Cynisca first entered the Olympics in 396 BC, where she won first prize competing with a team of horses she had trained herself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cynisca has received more than 212,124 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Cynisca is the 5,161st most popular politician (down from 4,576th in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Greece (down from 293rd in 2019) and the 139th most popular Greek Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cynisca ranks 5,161 out of 15,577Before her are Desiderata of the Lombards, Markos Vafeiadis, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Aleksander Čeferin, and 9th Dalai Lama. After her are Tukulti-Ninurta II, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Donald III of Scotland, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Michel Debré, and Blanche of Anjou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 430 BC, Cynisca ranks 3Before her are Xenophon and Dionysius I of Syracuse. After her are Aeschines of Sphettus and Philistus. Among people deceased in 389 BC, Cynisca ranks 2Before her is Thrasybulus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Cynisca ranks 314 out of 936Before her are Diagoras of Melos (-450), Leonidas of Rhodes (-200), Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904), Paeonius (-500), Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (-200), and Campaspe (-400). After her are Paul of Aegina (625), Yiannis Ritsos (1909), Demosthenes (-412), Konstantin Dejanović (1355), Antilochus (null), and Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger (1062).

Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Cynisca ranks 139Before her are Theodore Komnenos Doukas (1180), Leonnatus (-356), Philip I of Macedon (-700), Agis III (-350), Alexios Komnenos (1106), and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (-200). After her are Konstantin Dejanović (1355), Antilochus (null), Ptolemy of Aloros (-450), Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876), Archidamus III (-350), and Cleombrotus I (-500).