TENNIS PLAYER

Don Budge

1915 - 2000

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John Donald Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis player. He is most famous as the first tennis player — male or female, and still the only American male — to win the Grand Slam, and to win all four Grand Slam events consecutively overall. Budge was the second man to complete the career Grand Slam after Fred Perry, and remains the youngest to achieve the feat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Budge has received more than 454,723 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Don Budge is the 33rd most popular tennis player (down from 31st in 2019), the 2,076th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,888th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Tennis Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Don Budges by language

Over the past year Don Budge has had the most page views in the with 53,437 views, followed by Italian (11,818), and French (5,308). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (343.64%), Turkish (263.80%), and Chinese (186.00%)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Don Budge ranks 33 out of 1,569. Before him are Chris Evert, Mats Wilander, Jean Borotra, Bill Tilden, Pete Sampras, and Venus Williams. After him are Manuel Santana, Stefan Edberg, Jan Kodeš, Gottfried von Cramm, Manuel Orantes, and Mansour Bahrami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Don Budge ranks 70. Before him are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Konstantin Simonov, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Geraldine of Albania, Tadeusz Kantor, and Gretl Braun. After him are Joseph Greenberg, Georgy Sviridov, Kunihiko Kodaira, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kiyosi Itô, and Thomas Merton. Among people deceased in 2000, Don Budge ranks 67. Before him are Loretta Young, Heinz Harmel, Giorgio Bassani, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Keizō Obuchi, and Noboru Takeshita. After him are Kemal Sunal, Barbara Cartland, Maurice Richard, Pierre Plantard, Baden Powell, and Franck Pourcel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Budge ranks 2,076 out of 20,380. Before him are Casey Affleck (1975), Rami Malek (1981), Ralph Bunche (1904), Bettie Page (1923), Steven Soderbergh (1963), and Joel Silver (1952). After him are Henry Heimlich (1920), Toby Keith (1961), Richard Basehart (1914), Paul Rudd (1969), Donald Glover (1983), and Veronica Lake (1922).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Don Budge ranks 11. Before him are Stan Smith (1946), Serena Williams (1981), Chris Evert (1954), Bill Tilden (1893), Pete Sampras (1971), and Venus Williams (1980). After him are Pancho Gonzales (1928), Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), Bobby Riggs (1918), Althea Gibson (1927), Doris Hart (1925), and Maureen Connolly (1934).

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