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Duke Kahanamoku

1890 - 1968

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Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 – January 22, 1968) was a Hawaiian competition swimmer who popularized the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian, he was born to a minor noble family less than three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He lived to see the territory's admission as a state, and became a United States citizen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duke Kahanamoku has received more than 2,888,516 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Duke Kahanamoku is the 6th most popular swimmer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 2,974th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,103rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Swimmer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Duke Kahanamoku ranks 6 out of 392. Before him are Johnny Weissmuller, Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Alfréd Hajós, and Gertrude Ederle. After him are Rie Mastenbroek, Roland Matthes, Don Schollander, Arne Borg, Kornelia Ender, and Greta Andersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Duke Kahanamoku ranks 90. Before him are Harold Bride, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Ferruccio Parri, Clarence Brown, Victoria Ocampo, and Sarah Aaronsohn. After him are Mustafa Shokay, Vasili Eroshenko, Yoshio Nishina, Emilio Portes Gil, Erwin Jaenecke, and Robert Stroud. Among people deceased in 1968, Duke Kahanamoku ranks 85. Before him are Jean Paulhan, Santos Iriarte, Darío Moreno, Randolph Churchill, George Hackenschmidt, and Tallulah Bankhead. After him are Lilian Harvey, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Tian Han, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Tullio Serafin, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Duke Kahanamoku ranks 2,974 out of 18,182. Before him are Jim Hines (1946), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Babushka Lady (1930), Henry George (1839), Horace Wells (1815), and James Henry Breasted (1865). After him are Johnny Carson (1925), Eddie Fisher (1928), Joe Rosenthal (1911), Christina Applegate (1971), Melissa Gilbert (1964), and Alexandra Ripley (1934).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Duke Kahanamoku ranks 4. Before him are Michael Phelps (1985), Mark Spitz (1950), and Gertrude Ederle (1905). After him are Don Schollander (1946), Ann Curtis (1926), Ethelda Bleibtrey (1902), Charles Daniels (1885), Helene Madison (1913), Clarke Scholes (1930), Albina Osipowich (1911), and Helen Johns (1914).

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