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Ilona Elek

1907 - 1988

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Ilona Elek, known also as Ilona Elek-Schacherer (née “Elek"; 17 May 1907 – 24 July 1988) was a Hungarian Olympic fencer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilona Elek has received more than 42,869 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ilona Elek is the 4th most popular fencer (down from 2nd in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 206th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Fencer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Ilona Elek ranks 4 out of 349Before her are Daniel Revenu, Nedo Nadi, and Edoardo Mangiarotti. After her are Helene Mayer, Paul Anspach, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Pál Kovács, Elena Belova, and Manuel Díaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ilona Elek ranks 114Before her are Maurice Couve de Murville, Johann Trollmann, Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Daigoro Kondo, Álvaro Gestido, and Helmut Walcha. After her are Ayub Khan, Rudolf Peierls, Pierre Pflimlin, George de Mestral, Sabahattin Ali, and Roger Peyrefitte. Among people deceased in 1988, Ilona Elek ranks 73Before her are Anna Mahler, Piero Taruffi, Viktors Arājs, Charles Addams, Andrija Artuković, and Edgar Faure. After her are Raymond Dart, Mikha'il Na'ima, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Abdulrahman Fawzi, Giacinto Scelsi, and Gil Evans.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ilona Elek ranks 234 out of 1,077Before her are Alfréd Schaffer (1893), Chaka of Bulgaria (1210), Mátyás Szűrös (1933), Paul Lukas (1894), Tommy Ramone (1949), and Philip de László (1869). After her are Géza Anda (1921), József Zakariás (1924), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Sándor Garbai (1879), Ferenc Gyulay (1799), and Ibolya Csák (1915).

Among FENCERS In Hungary

Among fencers born in Hungary, Ilona Elek ranks 1After her are Pál Kovács (1912), Rudolf Kárpáti (1920), János Garay (1889), Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (1937), Oszkár Gerde (1883), Attila Petschauer (1904), Győző Kulcsár (1940), Lajos Werkner (1883), György Piller (1899), Dezső Földes (1880), and Péter Tóth (1882).