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Doug Rogers

1941 - 2020

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Alfred Harold Douglas Rogers (January 26, 1941 – July 20, 2020) was a Canadian Olympic competitor in judo, and the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the sport. He was an honoured member in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. His best results were a silver medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and a gold medal at the Pan American Games, in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Doug Rogers has received more than 8,439 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Doug Rogers is the 702nd most popular athlete (up from 1,169th in 2019), the 373rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 534th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Athlete.

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  • 47.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Doug Rogers ranks 702 out of 6,025. Before him are Pekka Vasala, Tatyana Anisimova, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Ingrid Auerswald, Karl Johan Svensson, and Akio Kaminaga. After him are Petra Felke, Arthur Harnden, Robert Lindsay, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Chi Cheng, and Christa Stubnick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Doug Rogers ranks 431. Before him are Zlatko Škorić, Wasim Sajjad, Gjermund Eggen, Aminata Sow Fall, Mario Trevi, and Stokely Carmichael. After him are Paul Theroux, Nikolai Gubenko, Iván Menczel, Walter Block, Stavros Dimas, and Jorma Kinnunen. Among people deceased in 2020, Doug Rogers ranks 419. Before him are Eddy Pieters Graafland, Reni Santoni, Samantha Fox, Donato Bilancia, Alki Zei, and Richard Corben. After him are Tom Heinsohn, Ernst Jean-Joseph, John Lyons, Nikolai Gubenko, Ram Vilas Paswan, and Gordon Haskell.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Doug Rogers ranks 373 out of 1,622. Before him are David Furnish (1962), George Romanes (1848), Geddy Lee (1953), Chief Dan George (1899), Xavier Dolan (1989), and Julie Payette (1963). After him are David Reimer (1965), David Baszucki (1963), Jessalyn Gilsig (1971), Naomi Klein (1970), Kelly Rowan (1965), and Feist (1976).

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Among ATHLETES In Canada

Among athletes born in Canada, Doug Rogers ranks 6. Before him are Donald Arnold (1935), Ethel Smith (1907), Terry Fox (1958), Percy Williams (1908), and Duncan McNaughton (1910). After him are Earl Thomson (1895), Étienne Desmarteau (1873), Jane Bell (1910), David Hall (1875), Peter Kirby (1931), and Frank Dixon (1878).

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