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Eddie Tolan

1908 - 1967

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Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30, 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints. He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eddie Tolan has received more than 131,832 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Eddie Tolan is the 404th most popular athlete (down from 346th in 2019), the 5,590th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,736th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

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  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Eddie Tolan ranks 404 out of 6,025. Before him are Olha Bryzhina, Yiannis Kouros, Erik Abrahamsson, Roberto Battaglia, Juan Pacheco, and Olga Fikotová. After him are Bernd Kannenberg, Natalia, Hjalmar Andersson, Pat McDonald, Carol, and Arvo Askola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Eddie Tolan ranks 232. Before him are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Teizo Takeuchi, Tommaso Landolfi, Tullio Pinelli, Helen Jacobs, and Francesco Camusso. After him are Milton Berle, Hugo Distler, Nikolai Kamanin, Jules Vandooren, Eugen Suchoň, and Mohammad Natsir. Among people deceased in 1967, Eddie Tolan ranks 172. Before him are Oskar Maria Graf, Erick-Oskar Hansen, Ad Reinhardt, Antonio Riberi, Lajos Kassák, and Holcombe Ward. After him are Jobyna Ralston, Ciro Alegría, Henry Luce, Ann Sheridan, Franz Babinger, and Arthur Ransome.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eddie Tolan ranks 5,590 out of 20,380. Before him are William H. Prescott (1796), David Proval (1942), Victor Sen Yung (1914), Sylvia Miles (1924), Bill Vukovich (1918), and Charlaine Harris (1951). After him are Joan Feynman (1927), Lou Gramm (1950), Frances Lee McCain (1943), John Dall (1920), Branscombe Richmond (1955), and Lee Radziwill (1933).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Eddie Tolan ranks 92. Before him are Ted Meredith (1891), Charles Bacon (1885), Chris Dickerson (1939), Honus Wagner (1874), Earle Meadows (1913), and Charles Dvorak (1878). After him are George Saling (1909), Forrest Smithson (1884), Emerson Spencer (1906), Allen Woodring (1898), Bobby Morrow (1935), and Otis Davis (1932).

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