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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dean Smith has received more than 2,112,285 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dean Smith is the 247th most popular basketball player (down from 127th in 2019), the 10,252nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,479th in 2019) and the 147th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 41.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Dean Smith ranks 247 out of 1,268. Before him are DeMar DeRozan, Ratko Radovanović, Joakim Noah, Terry Dischinger, Rik Smits, and Chris Bosh. After him are Rick Adelman, Juan Antonio Corbalán, Tiit Sokk, Ralph Sampson, Nicolas Batum, and George Karl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Dean Smith ranks 469. Before him are Karan Singh, Isidore Mankofsky, Kálmán Markovits, Rip Taylor, George Baker, and Richard Murphy. After him are Gloria Talbott, Thane Baker, Marisa Del Frate, Andrija Fuderer, John Kerr, and Ernie Banks. Among people deceased in 2015, Dean Smith ranks 415. Before him are Mariem Hassan, Edward Brooke, Alberto Nisman, Abu Anas al-Libi, Nicolás Fuentes, and Olga Knyazeva. After him are Howard Kendall, Ferenc Juhász, Edward Egan, Darren Shahlavi, Marisa Del Frate, and Stephan Beckenbauer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Smith ranks 10,252 out of 18,182. Before him are Birt Acres (1854), Edward James Roye (1815), Elihu B. Washburne (1816), Dan Osman (1963), Olivia Munn (1980), and Charles Sprague Sargent (1841). After him are Tracy Hickman (1955), Harvey Mason (1947), Michael McClure (1932), Stanley Fish (1938), William Daniels (1901), and Avery Dulles (1918).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Dean Smith ranks 147. Before him are Rajon Rondo (1986), Andre Iguodala (1984), DeMar DeRozan (1989), Joakim Noah (1985), Terry Dischinger (1940), and Chris Bosh (1984). After him are Rick Adelman (1946), Ralph Sampson (1960), George Karl (1951), Alex English (1954), Maurice Stokes (1933), and Rasheed Wallace (1974).

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