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Dick Button

1929 - Today

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Richard Totten Button (born July 18, 1929) is an American former 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Button has received more than 708,832 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Dick Button is the 80th most popular skater (down from 68th in 2019), the 7,648th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,604th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Skater.

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  • 44.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Dick Button ranks 80 out of 315Before him are Wim van der Voort, Cecilia Colledge, Andrei Bukin, Finn Helgesen, Midori Ito, and Ekaterina Gordeeva. After him are Ede Király, Klara Guseva, Carolina Kostner, Wolfgang Schwarz, Roald Aas, and Igor Zhelezovski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Dick Button ranks 391Before him are Yordan Radichkov, Mario Ghella, Win Tin, Audun Boysen, Villy Sørensen, and Pentti Hämäläinen. After him are Marcelino dos Santos, Raymond Bellot, Willy Kernen, István Rózsavölgyi, Harry Blanchard, and Ferdinand Oyono.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dick Button ranks 7,648 out of 18,182Before him are Deontay Wilder (1985), Mel Tormé (1925), Michael Steele (1955), Peter Buck (1956), Anita Stewart (1895), and King Curtis (1934). After him are John Jeffries (1745), Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815), Alice Coachman (1923), Rudolph Rummel (1932), Chuck Russell (1958), and Sherman Hemsley (1938).

Among SKATERS In United States

Among skaters born in United States, Dick Button ranks 6Before him are Tonya Harding (1970), Tony Hawk (1968), Eric Heiden (1958), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), and Charles Jewtraw (1900). After him are Tenley Albright (1935), Peggy Fleming (1948), Janet Lynn (1953), Carol Heiss (1940), David Jenkins (1936), and Irving Jaffee (1906).

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