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Dean Smith

1931 - 2015

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Dean Edwards Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time.[a] Smith had the ninth-highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dean Smith has received more than 2,186,044 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Dean Smith is the 240th most popular basketball player (up from 247th in 2019), the 10,345th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,229th in 2019) and the 127th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 43.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Dean Smith ranks 240 out of 1,757. Before him are Žan Tabak, Lamar Odom, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Horace Grant, Blagoja Georgievski, and George McGinnis. After him are Juan Antonio Corbalán, Rudy Fernández, Paul Pierce, Tiit Sokk, Sam Bowie, and Mirsad Türkcan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Dean Smith ranks 536. Before him are Gisela Birkemeyer, Johnny Sheffield, Müzahir Sille, Kálmán Markovits, Yves Dreyfus, and Gordon Pirie. After him are Georgi Vladimov, Josephine Tewson, Jerry Herman, Bernie Geoffrion, Boris Gurevich, and Andrew Hill. Among people deceased in 2015, Dean Smith ranks 433. Before him are Rico Rodriguez, Jimmy Murray, Mariem Hassan, Olga Knyazeva, Mark Murphy, and Isa Munayev. After him are Lorena Rojas, Origa, Robert Spitzer, Gene Saks, Peter Kern, and Alberta Watson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Smith ranks 10,345 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Blust (1940), Curt Schilling (1966), Don Gordon (1926), Keen Johnson (1896), Ira Remsen (1846), and George Nichols (1864). After him are Stanley Anderson (1939), Harlan F. Stone (1872), James Morrison (1954), Edward Sedgwick (1889), Miller Anderson (1922), and John Dean (1938).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Dean Smith ranks 127. Before him are Penny Hardaway (1971), Maurice Stokes (1933), Frank Ramsey (1931), Lamar Odom (1979), Horace Grant (1965), and George McGinnis (1950). After him are Paul Pierce (1977), Sam Bowie (1961), Rick Adelman (1946), Bob Lanier (1948), Shawn Kemp (1969), and Donald Piper (1911).

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