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Friðrik Ólafsson

1935 - Today

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Friðrik Ólafsson (born 26 January 1935) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He was president of FIDE from 1978 to 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friðrik Ólafsson has received more than 50,173 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Friðrik Ólafsson is the 77th most popular chess player (up from 87th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Iceland (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Chess Player.

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  • 50.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 77 out of 374Before him are Luděk Pachman, Alessandro Salvio, István Csom, Alexander Petrov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and Louis Paulsen. After him are Grigory Levenfish, Lev Polugaevsky, Reuben Fine, Adolf Albin, Pal Benko, and Levon Aronian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 192Before him are Jiří Čadek, Fiorenza Cossotto, Antonios Naguib, Yury Vlasov, Percy Adlon, and Peret. After him are Diahann Carroll, Valerio Adami, Yıldırım Akbulut, Nicola Cabibbo, Elga Andersen, and Fujio Akatsuka.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 30 out of 180Before him are Thorvald Eiriksson (972), Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975), Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807), Jón Ögmundsson (1052), Gunnar Hansen (1947), and Geir Haarde (1951). After him are Matthías Jochumsson (1835), Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885), Sturla Þórðarson (1214), Jón Leifs (1899), Katrín Jakobsdóttir (1976), and Guðbrandur Þorláksson (1542).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Iceland

Among chess players born in Iceland, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 1