TENNIS PLAYER

Fred Perry

1909 - 1995

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Frederick John Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a British tennis and table tennis player and former world No. 1 from England who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slam tournaments and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Perry has received more than 2,147,123 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Perry is the 8th most popular tennis player (down from 6th in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 546th in 2019) and the most popular British Tennis Player.

Fred Perry is most famous for inventing the polo shirt.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Fred Perry ranks 8 out of 1,569. Before him are Novak Djokovic, Rod Laver, René Lacoste, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, and Ilie Năstase. After him are Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Roger Federer, Martina Navratilova, Suzanne Lenglen, and Steffi Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Fred Perry ranks 30. Before him are Magda Schneider, Souphanouvong, Marinus van der Lubbe, Aleksandar Ranković, Benny Goodman, and Errol Flynn. After him are John Fante, Oldřich Nejedlý, Jessica Tandy, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Edward Tatum, and Miep Gies. Among people deceased in 1995, Fred Perry ranks 31. Before him are Milovan Đilas, Souphanouvong, William Alfred Fowler, Jonas Salk, Alec Douglas-Home, and Ginger Rogers. After him are John B. Calhoun, Hugo Pratt, Christian B. Anfinsen, Aziz Nesin, Edda Mussolini, and Roger Zelazny.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fred Perry ranks 608 out of 8,785. Before him are Annie Besant (1847), Amélie of Orléans (1865), Norman Angell (1872), James III of Scotland (1451), Philip Sclater (1829), and William Dampier (1651). After him are Louis Wain (1860), Thomas Hardy (1840), James II of Scotland (1430), Nigel Mansell (1953), Brian Epstein (1934), and Robert II of Scotland (1316).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among tennis players born in United Kingdom, Fred Perry ranks 1. After him are Charlotte Cooper (1870), Reginald Doherty (1872), William Renshaw (1861), Margaret Scriven (1912), Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897), Maud Watson (1864), Evelyn Colyer (1902), Dora Boothby (1881), Andy Murray (1987), Laurence Doherty (1875), and Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878).

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