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Dick Button

1929 - 2025

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Richard Totten Button (July 18, 1929 – January 30, 2025) was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive world champion (1948–1952). He was also the only non-European man to have become European champion. Button is credited as having been the first skater to successfully land the double Axel jump in competition in 1948, as well as the first triple jump of any kind – a triple loop – in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Button has received more than 929,763 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Dick Button is the 147th most popular skater (down from 80th in 2019), the 11,035th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,633rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Dick Button ranks 147 out of 483. Before him are Lassi Parkkinen, Janet Lynn, Andrei Bukin, Bjørg Eva Jensen, Sheila Young, and John Curry. After him are Toller Cranston, Bam Margera, Annie Borckink, Anett Pötzsch, Alv Gjestvang, and Edgar Syers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Dick Button ranks 501. Before him are Irwin I. Shapiro, Amanda Blake, William E. Thornton, Ursula Knab, Henry Proctor, and Ottó Boros. After him are Branko Grünbaum, Joe Meek, Ferenc Mohácsi, Jiří Hledík, James H. Billington, and Jerry Adler. Among people deceased in 2025, Dick Button ranks 101. Before him are Clem Burke, Calistrat Cuțov, Djamel Menad, Barbara Frischmuth, Maria Teresa Horta, and Émilie Dequenne. After him are Athol Fugard, Barbie Hsu, Johnny Tillotson, Wings Hauser, Greg Bell, and David Johansen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dick Button ranks 11,035 out of 20,380. Before him are Allan Arbus (1918), Harriet Hosmer (1830), Richard Taruskin (1945), Tom Dowd (1925), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), and William Schallert (1922). After him are Chad Coleman (1974), Cornelia Fort (1919), Debbie Gibson (1970), William Cameron Townsend (1896), Eddie Condon (1905), and Todd Boehly (1973).

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Among SKATERS In United States

Among skaters born in United States, Dick Button ranks 16. Before him are Carol Heiss (1940), Ken Henry (1929), Jeanne Ashworth (1938), Dorothy Hamill (1956), Janet Lynn (1953), and Sheila Young (1950). After him are Bam Margera (1979), Beatrix Loughran (1900), Hayes Alan Jenkins (1933), Irving Jaffee (1906), Maribel Vinson (1911), and Bonnie Blair (1964).

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