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John Devitt

1937 - 2023

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John Thomas Devitt, AM (4 February 1937 – 17 August 2023) was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a gold medal in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He won in controversial circumstances, being awarded the gold medal despite the timekeepers recording a slower time than the American silver medallist Lance Larson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Devitt has received more than 67,207 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Devitt is the 97th most popular swimmer (up from 114th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Australia (up from 380th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Swimmer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, John Devitt ranks 97 out of 709. Before him are Helen Wainwright, Mike Burton, Allen Stack, Nel van Vliet, Irene Steer, and László Szabados. After him are Frederick Holman, Wally Ris, Max Schöne, Elemér Szathmáry, Gilbert Bozon, and Georg Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, John Devitt ranks 459. Before him are Peter Medak, Susan Hampshire, Gregory Sierra, Delia Derbyshire, Josef Stiegler, and Raj Reddy. After him are Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Matthew Carter, James MacArthur, Little Willie John, Juan Lezcano, and Anatoly Karatsuba. Among people deceased in 2023, John Devitt ranks 511. Before him are Abderrahim Ouakili, Per Røntved, Patricia Janečková, Anvar Ibragimov, Traudl Hecher, and Rainer Troppa. After him are Sylvia Syms, Allan Jay, Vítězslav Mácha, Italo Galbiati, Walter Mirisch, and Vahidin Musemić.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, John Devitt ranks 287 out of 1,143. Before him are Bill Bruce (1923), Stephen Laybutt (1977), Kyrie Irving (1992), Cathy Freeman (1973), Lenka (1978), and Andrew Lesnie (1956). After him are Simone Young (1961), Ben Chifley (1885), Joseph Lyons (1879), Mary MacKillop (1842), Michael Jeffery (1937), and Edgar Moon (1904).

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Among SWIMMERS In Australia

Among swimmers born in Australia, John Devitt ranks 4. Before him are Ian Thorpe (1982), Frederick Lane (1880), and Fanny Durack (1889). After him are Lyn McClements (1951), Leslie Boardman (1889), Faith Leech (1941), Clare Dennis (1916), Harold Hardwick (1888), Mina Wylie (1891), Cecil Healy (1881), and Shane Gould (1956).

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