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Herb Drury

1896 - 1965

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Herbert Joseph Drury (March 2, 1896 – July 30, 1965) was a Canadian-born American ice hockey defenseman who played six seasons in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Quakers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herb Drury has received more than 23,150 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Herb Drury is the 53rd most popular hockey player (up from 84th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from Canada (up from 667th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Canadian Hockey Player.

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  • 43.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Herb Drury ranks 53 out of 676. Before him are Sergei Fedorov, Peter Forsberg, Howie Morenz, Valentin Loos, Dick Esser, and Nils Nilsson. After him are Håkan Loob, Jan Klapáč, Ross Cuthbert, Alexander Almetov, Vitali Davydov, and Veniamin Alexandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Herb Drury ranks 249. Before him are Alister Hardy, Liam O'Flaherty, Lawrence Tibbett, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Natalie Talmadge, and Ian Wolfe. After him are Manuel Rojas, J. Carrol Naish, Adele Astaire, Pavel Antokolsky, Keen Johnson, and V. K. Krishna Menon. Among people deceased in 1965, Herb Drury ranks 211. Before him are Søren Marinus Jensen, Tadd Dameron, Vasily Struve, Edward Archibald, Felix Frankfurter, and Aimée Antoinette Camus. After him are Gheorghe Ciolac, Robert Sjursen, Herbert Morrison, Halvdan Koht, David Smith, and John Miller.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Herb Drury ranks 569 out of 1,622. Before him are Michael Cera (1988), Gus Dillon (1881), Thomas Middleditch (1982), Ken Kirzinger (1959), Mac DeMarco (1990), and Jagmeet Singh (1979). After him are Hilarion Kapral (1948), Yvonne Brill (1924), Teryl Rothery (1962), Helen Shaver (1951), Hilda Strike (1910), and Claude Vivier (1948).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Canada

Among hockey players born in Canada, Herb Drury ranks 13. Before him are Mario Lemieux (1965), Henri Richard (1936), Bobby Orr (1948), Guy Lafleur (1951), Marcel Dionne (1951), and Howie Morenz (1902). After him are Ross Cuthbert (1892), Ernie Collett (1895), Mark Messier (1961), Bernie Geoffrion (1931), Bobby Clarke (1949), and Frank Sullivan (1898).

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