SOCCER PLAYER

George Orton

1873 - 1958

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George Washington F. Orton (January 10, 1873 – June 24, 1958) was a Canadian middle and long-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win a medal at an Olympic Games. He won a bronze in the 400 metre hurdles, and then, forty-five minutes later, won the gold medal in the 2500 metre steeplechase. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Orton has received more than 50,771 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. George Orton is the 4,317th most popular soccer player (down from 3,335th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Canada (down from 460th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, George Orton ranks 4,317 out of 21,273. Before him are Maouhoub Ghazouani, Cristián Zapata, Jan Olsson, Héctor Hernández, Oleh Kuznetsov, and Vitaliy Parakhnevych. After him are Ilie Subășeanu, Slobodan Dubajić, Shinji Tanaka, Federico Wilde, Luis Muriel, and Neven Subotić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, George Orton ranks 178. Before him are Juliette Atkinson, Michel Giacobini, Gombojab Tsybikov, Jānis Endzelīns, Henri Helle, and Karl Jatho. After him are Walter de la Mare, Lucien Mérignac, Charles Clary, Guillaume Grandidier, Juan Corzo, and Carlos María de la Torre. Among people deceased in 1958, George Orton ranks 170. Before him are Billy Whelan, Francis Carco, Frank Swift, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Norman Bel Geddes, and Sam Zimbalist. After him are Kurt Neumann, Virginia Pearson, Gilbert Walker, Maksimilijan Mihelčič, Alma Bennett, and Paul Pilgrim.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, George Orton ranks 501 out of 1,622. Before him are William Hope (1955), Edison Chen (1980), Ian Millar (1947), Joshua Jackson (1978), Monique Mercure (1930), and Melissa Roxburgh (1992). After him are Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), Barbara Wagner (1938), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), Jill Hennessy (1968), Robert Benson (1894), and Kenny Wheeler (1930).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Canada

Among soccer players born in Canada, George Orton ranks 6. Before him are John van 't Schip (1963), Yassine Bounou (1991), Owen Hargreaves (1981), Tom Taylor (1880), and Dwight Lodeweges (1957). After him are Atiba Hutchinson (1983), Jonathan de Guzmán (1987), Fikayo Tomori (1997), Dale Mitchell (1958), Cyle Larin (1995), and Julian de Guzman (1981).

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