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Glenn Davis

1934 - 2009

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Glenn Ashby "Jeep" Davis (September 12, 1934 – January 28, 2009) was an American Olympic hurdler and sprinter who won a total of three gold medals in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games. Davis later played professional American football with the Detroit Lions and was a teacher and coach in his adopted hometown of Barberton, Ohio for 33 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Glenn Davis has received more than 22,033 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Glenn Davis is the 339th most popular athlete (up from 344th in 2019), the 5,714th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,039th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Glenn Davis ranks 339 out of 3,055. Before him are Adolf Wiklund, Władysław Komar, Lillian Copeland, Yrjö Nikkanen, Tamara Bykova, and Gyula Zsivótzky. After him are Galina Bystrova, Sven Thofelt, Betty Cuthbert, Fauja Singh, Gunder Hägg, and John Akii-Bua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Glenn Davis ranks 281. Before him are Anne Haney, Richard D. Zanuck, Ronnie Drew, Hamit Kaplan, Johnny Haynes, and Lasse Mårtenson. After him are Galina Bystrova, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Humberto Tozzi, Gulzar, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, and Phil Ramone. Among people deceased in 2009, Glenn Davis ranks 209. Before him are Willem Johan Kolff, Edmund Purdom, Barry Flanagan, Charlie Mariano, Ron Silver, and Lis Hartel. After him are Marilyn French, Norbert Eschmann, Anselmo Duarte, Jan Kaplický, Hirotugu Akaike, and Kim Manners.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glenn Davis ranks 5,714 out of 15,968. Before him are T. C. Boyle (1948), William Eggleston (1939), Jay Gould (1836), Shawn Crahan (1969), Lane Smith (1936), and Donald Fagen (1948). After him are Jamey Sheridan (1951), Bill O'Reilly (1949), Gram Parsons (1946), Mildred Davis (1901), Caroline Harrison (1832), and Adriana Caselotti (1916).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Glenn Davis ranks 75. Before him are Henry Russell (1904), Mel Sheppard (1883), Albert Tyler (1872), Norbert Schemansky (1924), William Porter (1926), and Lillian Copeland (1904). After him are Harry Stenqvist (1893), Steve Prefontaine (1951), Jim Lightbody (1882), Ted Meredith (1891), Frank Wykoff (1909), and Harry Porter (1882).

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