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Ilona Elek

1907 - 1988

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilona Elek has received more than 38,640 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ilona Elek is the 2nd most popular fencer (up from 7th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 311th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Fencer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.85

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Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Ilona Elek ranks 2 out of 174Before her are Olga Szabó-Orbán. After her are Nedo Nadi, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Gianluigi Saccaro, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, Helene Mayer, Paul Anspach, Elena Belova, Pál Kovács, and Attila Petschauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ilona Elek ranks 104Before her are Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sebastian Haffner, Heinz Brandt, Shiro Teshima, Pedro Arrupe, and Arseny Tarkovsky. After her are Avraham Stern, Roger Peyrefitte, Fay Wray, Tino Rossi, Maurice Couve de Murville, and Sabahattin Ali. Among people deceased in 1988, Ilona Elek ranks 64Before her are Antonín Puč, Giacinto Scelsi, Vladimír Menšík, Luis Walter Alvarez, Henry Murray, and George Uhlenbeck. After her are Raymond Dart, Antal Doráti, Lev Pontryagin, Andy Gibb, Takeo Miki, and Khalil al-Wazir.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ilona Elek ranks 206 out of 866Before her are György Konrád (1933), Fritz Reiner (1888), George Szell (1897), László Budai (1928), Adolph Zukor (1873), and Hans Swarowsky (1899). After her are Ferenc Erkel (1810), Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Nicholas Kaldor (1908), Ferenc Fricsay (1914), Eugene Ormandy (1899), and Josef Dobrovský (1753).

Among FENCERS In Hungary

Among fencers born in Hungary, Ilona Elek ranks 1After her are Pál Kovács (1912), Attila Petschauer (1904), János Garay (1889), Rudolf Kárpáti (1920), Oszkár Gerde (1883), Lajos Werkner (1883), György Piller (1899), Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (1937), Dezső Földes (1880), Sándor Pósta (1888), and Győző Kulcsár (1940).