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Jānis Krūmiņš

1930 - 1994

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Jānis Krūmiņš (30 January 1930 – 20 November 1994) was a Soviet-Latvian professional basketball player. Helped by his height (about 220 cm, or 7'3"), he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Krūmiņš has received more than 74,330 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jānis Krūmiņš is the 89th most popular basketball player (up from 107th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 109th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Basketball Player.

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  • 23

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Jānis Krūmiņš ranks 89 out of 1,268. Before him are Marion Jones, Vladimir Tkachenko, Ray Allen, George Gervin, Wes Unseld, and Ettore Messina. After him are Gary Payton, Larry Brown, Kevin Garnett, Velimir Perasović, Nate Archibald, and Aleksandar Petrović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jānis Krūmiņš ranks 321. Before him are Bob Guccione, Allan Bloom, Bradford Dillman, Hector Bianciotti, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, and Michel Deguy. After him are Herbert Erhardt, Roger Vonlanthen, Henri Coppens, Malcolm Fraser, Ivan Kolev, and John Romita Sr.. Among people deceased in 1994, Jānis Krūmiņš ranks 199. Before him are Paul Xuereb, Russell Kirk, Aurora Mardiganian, Robert Jungk, Dinah Shore, and Lilia Skala. After him are Lew Hoad, Tom Ewell, Sigmund Ruud, Severino Minelli, Masayoshi Ito, and Avet Terterian.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Krūmiņš ranks 118 out of 284. Before him are Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887), Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838), Lya Mara (1897), Elīna Garanča (1976), Heinz Erhardt (1909), and Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948). After him are Lūcija Garūta (1902), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Eliyahu Rips (1948), Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879), and Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Latvia

Among basketball players born in Latvia, Jānis Krūmiņš ranks 1. After him are Maigonis Valdmanis (1933), Valdis Valters (1957), Igors Miglinieks (1964), Kaspars Kambala (1978), Kristaps Porziņģis (1995), Dāvis Bertāns (1992), Jānis Timma (1992), Jānis Blūms (1982), Dairis Bertāns (1989), Jānis Strēlnieks (1989), and Andris Biedriņš (1986).

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