REFEREE

Ivan Eklind

1905 - 1981

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Ivan Henning Hjalmar Eklind (15 October 1905 – 23 July 1981) was a football referee from Sweden known for refereeing the 1934 FIFA World Cup final between Italy and Czechoslovakia in Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Eklind has received more than 32,876 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ivan Eklind is the 3rd most popular referee, the 360th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 432nd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ivan Eklinds by language

Over the past year Ivan Eklind has had the most page views in the with 3,621 views, followed by German (1,858), and Italian (1,303). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Danish (84.22%), Hungarian (20.26%), and Spanish (4.16%)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Ivan Eklind ranks 3 out of 147. Before him are Pierluigi Collina, and Romualdo Arppi Filho. After him are Damir Skomina, Sándor Puhl, Michel Vautrot, Markus Merk, Horacio Elizondo, Rudi Glöckner, Nicolae Rainea, Jack Taylor, and Björn Kuipers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Ivan Eklind ranks 126. Before him are Hiroshi Inagaki, Maximilian Grabner, Louis Harold Gray, Henry Koster, Hans Freudenthal, and Pierre Brasseur. After him are Nathan Homer Knorr, Eduard Tubin, Albert W. Tucker, Franz König, Frits Philips, and Luigi Zampa. Among people deceased in 1981, Ivan Eklind ranks 86. Before him are Harry Harlow, Helmut Gröttrup, Nargis, Jerzy Neyman, Michele Andreolo, and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. After him are Edith Head, Rensis Likert, Edvard Kocbek, Mohammad Beheshti, Paul Anspach, and Victor Kugler.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ivan Eklind ranks 360 out of 1,879. Before him are Maria Gripe (1923), Ola Ullsten (1931), Erik Nilsson (1916), Marika Green (1943), Svante Nilsson (1460), and Anders Sparrman (1748). After him are Kalle Svensson (1925), Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862), Noomi Rapace (1979), Thomas Ravelli (1959), Sofia Helin (1972), and Princess Amalia of Sweden (1805).

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Among REFEREES In Sweden

Among referees born in Sweden, Ivan Eklind ranks 1. After him are Jonas Eriksson (1974), Martin Hansson (1971), Peter Fröjdfeldt (1963), and Andreas Ekberg (1985).

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