BOXER

Jean Despeaux

1915 - 1989

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Jean Despeaux (22 October 1915 – 25 May 1989) was a French boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal in the middleweight class after winning the final against Henry Tiller. He also acted in a handful of films, including Maurice Tourneur's La Main du diable (1943), in which he played a boxer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Despeaux has received more than 16,734 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Despeaux is the 126th most popular boxer (down from 95th in 2019), the 4,793rd most popular biography from France (down from 4,205th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Jean Despeaux ranks 126 out of 496. Before him are Orlando Martínez, Bert Schneider, Arturo Rodríguez, Riddick Bowe, Bruno Ahlberg, and Pete Rademacher. After him are Slobodan Kačar, Anton Josipović, Edgar Basel, Amado Azar, Horacio Accavallo, and Francisco Rodríguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Jean Despeaux ranks 232. Before him are Norman Cousins, A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, Khadr El-Touni, Carmen Herrera, Patricia Morison, and Melih Cevdet Anday. After him are Srđan Mrkušić, Billy Strayhorn, Richard Evans Schultes, Anita Lizana, Heinz Körvers, and Georgy Tovstonogov. Among people deceased in 1989, Jean Despeaux ranks 244. Before him are Willibald Kreß, Federico Saiz, Scott O'Dell, Fernando Martín Espina, Lynn Bari, and Lee Calhoun. After him are Ansa Ikonen, Virgil Thomson, Willie Steele, Norma Varden, Marshall Harvey Stone, and Édouard Candeveau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Despeaux ranks 4,793 out of 6,770. Before him are Armand Massard (1884), Emma de Caunes (1976), Olivier Rolin (1947), Gaston Mercier (1932), Jean Forestier (1930), and Anthony Martial (1995). After him are Marion Hänsel (1949), Pierre Trentin (1944), Pierre Puiseux (1855), Stéphanie Frappart (1983), Michel Giacobini (1873), and Joseph François Dupleix (1697).

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Among BOXERS In France

Among boxers born in France, Jean Despeaux ranks 3. Before him are Georges Carpentier (1894), and Charles Mayer (1882). After him are Roger Michelot (1912), Paul Fritsch (1901), Alexis Vastine (1986), Tony Yoka (1992), Brahim Asloum (1979), Jérôme Thomas (1979), Sofiane Oumiha (1994), Daouda Sow (1983), and Billal Bennama (1998).

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