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Dominique Wilkins

1960 - Today

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Jacques Dominique Wilkins (born January 12, 1960) is an American former professional basketball player who primarily played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Wilkins was a nine-time NBA All-Star, a seven-time All-NBA Team member and is widely viewed as one of the most acrobatic slam dunkers in NBA history, earning the nickname "The Human Highlight Film". In October 2021, he was honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all-time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dominique Wilkins has received more than 3,490,793 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Dominique Wilkins is the 95th most popular basketball player (down from 70th in 2019), the 4,083rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,544th in 2019) and the most popular French Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dominique Wilkins by language

Over the past year Dominique Wilkins has had the most page views in the with 432,434 views, followed by Spanish (26,861), and French (25,136). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (121.76%), Basque (61.44%), and Latvian (51.86%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Dominique Wilkins ranks 95 out of 1,757. Before him are Dino Meneghin, Nate Archibald, Bob McAdoo, Pablo Laso, Manu Ginóbili, and Reggie Miller. After him are Aleksandar Petrović, Jerry Sloan, Jerry Lucas, Larry Brown, Mike D'Antoni, and Heino Kruus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Dominique Wilkins ranks 211. Before him are Oleg Bryjak, Mikael Håfström, Tomislav Ivković, Aguri Suzuki, Anders Hejlsberg, and Vladimir Krutov. After him are Sally Yates, Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga, Viktor Lazlo, Yurii Andrukhovych, Jason Beghe, and Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani.

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In France

Among people born in France, Dominique Wilkins ranks 4,083 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules Vandooren (1908), Émile Champion (1879), Marcel Amont (1929), James Dwight (1852), Michel Félix Dunal (1789), and Maurice Sachs (1906). After him are Michel Blanc (1952), Aymeric Laporte (1994), Marc Fumaroli (1932), Hippolyte Aucouturier (1876), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), and Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In France

Among basketball players born in France, Dominique Wilkins ranks 1. After him are Michel Bonnevie (1921), André Buffière (1922), Vincent Collet (1963), Boris Diaw (1982), Nando de Colo (1987), Rudy Gobert (1992), Victor Wembanyama (2004), Antoine Rigaudeau (1971), Nicolas Batum (1988), Evan Fournier (1992), and Thomas Heurtel (1989).

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