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RACING DRIVER

Geoff Duke

1923 - 2015

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Geoffrey Ernest Duke (29 March 1923 – 1 May 2015), born in St. Helens, Lancashire, was a British multiple motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion. He raced several brands of motorcycle: Norton, Gilera, BMW, NSU and Benelli. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoff Duke has received more than 183,505 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Geoff Duke is the 245th most popular racing driver (down from 225th in 2019), the 2,778th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,666th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Racing Driver.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Geoff Duke ranks 245 out of 888. Before him are Marc Márquez, Bruno Giacomelli, Ricardo Zunino, Georges Berger, Richard Petty, and Luca Badoer. After him are Ken Block, Satoru Nakajima, Nicky Hayden, Johnny Herbert, Gino Bianco, and Peter Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Geoff Duke ranks 230. Before him are Octavio Lepage, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Isao Kimura, V. C. Andrews, Charlie Mariano, and Juan Burgueño. After him are Galyani Vadhana, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Betsy Blair, Rudolf Augstein, Jamshid Amouzegar, and Ida Vitale. Among people deceased in 2015, Geoff Duke ranks 217. Before him are Fred Thompson, Qiao Shi, Phil Woods, Daevid Allen, Alex Rocco, and Giacomo Biffi. After him are Dinkha IV, László Paskai, Geoffrey Howe, Karl Josef Becker, Nora Brockstedt, and Lizabeth Scott.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoff Duke ranks 2,778 out of 7,765. Before him are Edmund Gunter (1581), Laura Ashley (1925), Caroline Goodall (1959), Ronald Speirs (1920), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), and John Shrapnel (1942). After him are Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Anna Kingsford (1846), William Hunter (1718), Eric Gill (1882), Jim Sturgess (1978), and Barry Jackson (1938).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Geoff Duke ranks 37. Before him are Bob Anderson (1931), Bill Ivy (1942), Tony Brise (1952), Peter Gethin (1940), Jackie Oliver (1942), and Phil Read (1939). After him are Johnny Herbert (1964), Peter Walker (1912), John Taylor (1933), Derek Warwick (1954), Divina Galica (1944), and Derek Bell (1941).

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