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Jehan Buhan

1912 - 1999

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Jehan Buhan (5 April 1912 – 14 September 1999) was a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition. He received a gold medal in foil individual at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jehan Buhan has received more than 16,709 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jehan Buhan is the 22nd most popular fencer (up from 34th in 2019), the 4,004th most popular biography from France (up from 4,158th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Fencer.

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  • 56.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Jehan Buhan ranks 22 out of 349. Before him are Gaston Alibert, Rudolf Kárpáti, Grigory Kriss, Émile Coste, János Garay, and Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici. After him are Aldo Nadi, George Calnan, Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Georges Buchard, Roger Ducret, and Pierluigi Chicca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Jehan Buhan ranks 231. Before him are Yusuf Lule, Renato Rascel, Robert Jacobsen, Paul Meurisse, Erwin Bauer, and Enoch Powell. After him are Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Frank Thomas, Maurice Guigue, Léon Damas, Roger Courtois, and Ted Drake. Among people deceased in 1999, Jehan Buhan ranks 161. Before him are Rudolf Kárpáti, Henry Carlsson, Tatevik Sazandaryan, Alfred Bickel, Art Farmer, and Zuleykha Seyidmammadova. After him are Charles Crichton, Lee Falk, Galina Bystrova, Joshua Nkomo, Johannes Käbin, and Annibale Frossi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jehan Buhan ranks 4,004 out of 6,770. Before him are Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Désirée Artôt (1835), Cecilia of Normandy (1056), and Édouard Artigas (1906). After him are Paul Le Guen (1964), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1725), Henri Harpignies (1819), and Hawise, Duchess of Brittany (1037).

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Among FENCERS In France

Among fencers born in France, Jehan Buhan ranks 5. Before him are Daniel Revenu (1942), Lucien Gaudin (1886), Gaston Alibert (1878), and Émile Coste (1862). After him are Georges Buchard (1893), Roger Ducret (1888), Jacques Ochs (1883), Georges de la Falaise (1866), Gilbert Bougnol (1866), André Labatut (1891), and Jean Stern (1875).

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