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Frank Foss

1895 - 1989

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Frank Kent Foss (May 9, 1895 – April 5, 1989) was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record. Foss grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Foss has received more than 2,408 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Foss is the 344th most popular athlete (up from 385th in 2019), the 5,093rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,026th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Frank Foss ranks 344 out of 6,025. Before him are Armas Toivonen, Eugenio Monti, Ernesto Ambrosini, Evelyn Ashford, Jean Bouin, and William Jones. After him are Evangelos Damaskos, Archon of Pella, Olga Gyarmati, Camila, George Horine, and Leonid Zhabotinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Frank Foss ranks 180. Before him are Marie-Dominique Chenu, Alexander Mikulin, Erich Buschenhagen, Geo Milev, Nikifor, and Plínio Salgado. After him are Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Ayna Sultanova, Louis Raymond, Giovanni Brunero, August Emil Fieldorf, and Carl Westergren. Among people deceased in 1989, Frank Foss ranks 170. Before him are Harold Jeffreys, José Bustamante y Rivero, Don Revie, Veniamin Kaverin, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, and Antonio Janigro. After him are Betti Alver, Robert Webber, Colin Clark, Carl Dahlhaus, Christine Jorgensen, and Maurice Evans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Foss ranks 5,093 out of 20,380. Before him are Evelyn Ashford (1957), Charlie Mariano (1923), George Huntington (1850), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Mackenyu (1996), and Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893). After him are Donald Keene (1922), Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), Mae Murray (1885), Taryn Power (1953), Jonathan Winters (1925), and David Patrick Kelly (1951).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Frank Foss ranks 74. Before him are Henry Russell (1904), Ethel Catherwood (1908), Don Bragg (1935), Bob King (1906), Arthur Blake (1872), and Evelyn Ashford (1957). After him are George Horine (1890), William Porter (1926), Bill Nieder (1933), Albert Gutterson (1887), Dexter Jackson (1969), and Richard Sheldon (1878).

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