SKATER

Gillis Grafström

1893 - 1938

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Gillis Emanuel Grafström (7 June 1893 – 14 April 1938) was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating (1920, 1924, 1928) as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships (1922, 1924, 1929). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gillis Grafström has received more than 117,020 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gillis Grafström is the 9th most popular skater (down from 4th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 228th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

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  • 55.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Gillis Grafström ranks 9 out of 483. Before him are Oleg Protopopov, Ulrich Salchow, Axel Paulsen, Tonya Harding, Clas Thunberg, and Katarina Witt. After him are Ondrej Nepela, Ivar Ballangrud, Ludmila Belousova, Karl Schäfer, Hjalmar Andersen, and Ethel Muckelt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Gillis Grafström ranks 93. Before him are Miloš Crnjanski, Władysław Strzemiński, Alfréd Schaffer, William Dieterle, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, and Clas Thunberg. After him are Merian C. Cooper, Edsel Ford, Raymond Dart, Gaston Julia, Nestor Lakoba, and Israel Joshua Singer. Among people deceased in 1938, Gillis Grafström ranks 86. Before him are Sholem Schwarzbard, Nikolai Krylenko, Christen C. Raunkiær, Max Factor, William Henry Pickering, and Florence Lawrence. After him are George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Edwin Hall, Ante Trumbić, Octavian Goga, Hans Litten, and Jānis K. Bērziņš.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gillis Grafström ranks 310 out of 1,879. Before him are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390), Jo Bonnier (1930), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), Pernilla August (1958), Rogvolod (901), and Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871). After him are Håkan the Red (1040), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Krister Henriksson (1946), Otto Nordenskjöld (1869), Lasse Berghagen (1945), and Allan Edwall (1924).

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Among SKATERS In Sweden

Among skaters born in Sweden, Gillis Grafström ranks 1. After him are Åke Seyffarth (1919), Sigvard Ericsson (1930), Richard Johansson (1882), Göran Claeson (1945), Per Thorén (1885), Jonny Nilsson (1943), Johnny Höglin (1943), and Nils van der Poel (1996).

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