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Gillian Cowley

1955 - Today

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Gillian Margaret "Gill" Cowley (born July 8, 1955 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia) is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of the African nation, which quickly assembled a team less than a week before the competition started. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gillian Cowley has received more than 11,917 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gillian Cowley is the 3,920th most popular athlete (down from 2,458th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Zambia (down from 21st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Zambian Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 30.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gillian Cowleys by language

Over the past year Gillian Cowley has had the most page views in the with 1,081 views, followed by Chinese (525), and Persian (230). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (97.98%), Chinese (73.84%), and Egyptian Arabic (34.44%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gillian Cowley ranks 3,920 out of 6,025. Before her are Jan Dydak, Irina Stankina, Lars Helge Birkeland, Ignisious Gaisah, Daniel Bailey, and Ghirmay Ghebreslassie. After her are David Jenkins, Paraskevi Papachristou, Mona Brorsson, Roberto Di Donna, Lukáš Pollert, and Junko Asari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Gillian Cowley ranks 739. Before her are Otis Birdsong, Richard Hieb, Jaspal Bhatti, Willie Miller, John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, and Tony Snow. After her are Sanal Edamaruku, Pierre J. Thuot, Ann Meyers, Kevin Brady, Gwen Ifill, and Pete Sessions.

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In Zambia

Among people born in Zambia, Gillian Cowley ranks 27 out of 41. Before her are Janny Sikazwe (1979), Guus Til (1997), Jacob Mulenga (1984), Alan Rusbridger (1953), Dambisa Moyo (1969), and Kennedy Mweene (1984). After her are James Chamanga (1980), Felix Katongo (1984), Stoppila Sunzu (1989), Emmanuel Mbola (1993), Enock Mwepu (1998), and Rainford Kalaba (1986).

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Among ATHLETES In Zambia

Among athletes born in Zambia, Gillian Cowley ranks 2. Before her are Samuel Matete (1968).

Zambian born Athletes

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