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John Wooden

1910 - 2010

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John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wooden has received more than 3,445,006 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). John Wooden is the 106th most popular basketball player (down from 105th in 2019), the 6,308th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,500th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, John Wooden ranks 106 out of 1,268. Before him are Vince Carter, Bob McAdoo, Dejan Bodiroga, Bill Sharman, Mike D'Antoni, and Frank Lubin. After him are David Blatt, Dikembe Mutombo, Bill Walton, Modestas Paulauskas, James Harden, and Kevin McHale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, John Wooden ranks 234. Before him are Frank Lubin, Duncan McNaughton, Guy Mairesse, Aldo Donati, Tomás Ojeda, and Nicolas Rossolimo. After him are Else Alfelt, Gennady Voronov, Laurance Rockefeller, Mamadou Dia, Katalin Karády, and William Higinbotham. Among people deceased in 2010, John Wooden ranks 247. Before him are Vitaly Sevastyanov, Walter Rudin, Robert B. Parker, Geoffrey Burbidge, Lhasa de Sela, and Carla Del Poggio. After him are Hans van Mierlo, Nelly Landry, Irina Arkhipova, Paul Gray, Tomás Eloy Martínez, and Roy Ward Baker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Wooden ranks 6,308 out of 18,182. Before him are James B. Conant (1893), Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930), Alan Ruck (1956), L. Q. Jones (1927), Michael Bowen (1957), and Gil Scott-Heron (1949). After him are Jo Jones (1911), Mike Todd (1909), Jane Bowles (1917), Leslie West (1945), Lydia Davis (1947), and Chris Wedge (1957).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, John Wooden ranks 64. Before him are Walt Frazier (1945), Vince Carter (1977), Bob McAdoo (1951), Bill Sharman (1926), Mike D'Antoni (1951), and Frank Lubin (1910). After him are David Blatt (1959), Bill Walton (1952), James Harden (1989), Kevin McHale (1957), Chris Andersen (1978), and Russell Westbrook (1988).

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