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Jim Hines

1946 - 2023

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James Ray Hines (September 10, 1946 – June 3, 2023) was an American track and field athlete and National Football League (NFL) player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Hines has received more than 349,633 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jim Hines is the 78th most popular athlete (up from 93rd in 2019), the 2,968th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,219th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Athlete.

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  • 54.03

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jim Hines ranks 78 out of 3,059Before him are Ralph Craig, Haile Gebrselassie, Jüri Tamm, Volodymyr Holubnychy, Robert Garrett, and Myer Prinstein. After him are Stamata Revithi, Thomas Hicks, Lee Haney, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess, Mohammed Gammoudi, and Irena Szewińska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jim Hines ranks 202Before him are Lesley Gore, Antony Beevor, Terence McKenna, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Luc Marion, and Ahmad Zahir. After him are Toquinho, Irena Szewińska, Lucien Van Impe, John Waters, Ti Lung, and Shlomo Sand. Among people deceased in 2023, Jim Hines ranks 110Before him are Ahmed Qurei, Antonella Lualdi, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Ellsberg, Luis Garavito, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. After him are Ben Ferencz, Concha Velasco, Gaston Glock, Yuri Temirkanov, A. S. Byatt, and Lubomír Štrougal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Hines ranks 2,968 out of 18,182Before him are Charles Napier (1936), Scatman Crothers (1910), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Paul Romer (1955), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), and Ty Cobb (1886). After him are Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Babushka Lady (1930), Henry George (1839), Horace Wells (1815), James Henry Breasted (1865), and Duke Kahanamoku (1890).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Jim Hines ranks 23Before him are Irving Baxter (1876), Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), Wilma Rudolph (1940), Jim Thorpe (1887), Ralph Craig (1889), and Robert Garrett (1875). After him are Lee Haney (1959), Archie Hahn (1880), John Paine (1870), Frank Jarvis (1878), Jay Cutler (1973), and Michael Johnson (1967).