1939 - 2020
Jānis Lūsis (19 May 1939 – 29 April 2020) was a Latvian track and field athlete who competed in javelin throw. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Lūsis has received more than 60,440 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Jānis Lūsis is the 43rd most popular athlete (down from 8th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Latvia (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Athlete.
Jānis lūsis is most famous for its discovery in the late 1800s by a scientist named Ignaz Semmelweis. The discovery was made when Semmelweis observed that the death rate of mothers giving birth in the hospital dropped significantly when doctors washed their hands before delivering babies.
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Among athletes, Jānis Lūsis ranks 43 out of 3,059. Before him are Shizo Kanakuri, Vasily Alekseyev, Coroebus of Elis, Ivan Patzaichin, Tommie Smith, and Mark Phillips. After him are Theagenes of Thasos, Alberto Juantorena, Peter Norman, Valeriy Brumel, Ellery Harding Clark, and Ville Ritola.
1891 - 1983
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 37
1942 - 2011
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 38
800 BC - 800 BC
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 39
1949 - 2021
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 40
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 41
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 42
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 43
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 44
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 45
1942 - 2006
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 46
1942 - 2003
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 47
1874 - 1949
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 48
1896 - 1982
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 49
Among people born in 1939, Jānis Lūsis ranks 110. Before him are Jean Djorkaeff, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, Grace Slick, Dusty Springfield, Warda Al-Jazairia, and Marco Bellocchio. After him are Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Mark Margolis, Seamus Heaney, Fred Willard, Neil Sedaka, and Alexandros Panagoulis. Among people deceased in 2020, Jānis Lūsis ranks 106. Before him are Lorenzo Sanz, Gérard Houllier, David Prowse, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Amadou Toumani Touré, and Sergio Rossi. After him are Nikolai Kapustin, Claude Brasseur, Fred Willard, Rocky Johnson, Ivry Gitlis, and Harry Gregg.
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 104
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 105
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 106
1939 - 1999
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 107
1939 - 2012
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 108
1939 - Present
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 109
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 110
1939 - 2021
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 111
1939 - 2023
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 112
1939 - 2013
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 113
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 114
1939 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 115
1939 - 1976
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 116
1943 - 2020
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 100
1947 - 2020
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 101
1935 - 2020
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 102
1932 - 2020
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 103
1948 - 2020
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 104
1935 - 2020
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 105
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 106
1937 - 2020
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 107
1936 - 2020
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 108
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 109
1944 - 2020
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 110
1922 - 2020
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 111
1932 - 2020
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 112
Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Lūsis ranks 31 out of 284. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Pēteris Vasks (1946), Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692), Philippe Halsman (1906), and Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650). After him are Jānis Čakste (1859), Rainis (1865), Raimonds Pauls (1936), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), and Jukums Vācietis (1873).
1804 - 1881
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 25
1751 - 1792
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 26
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 27
1692 - 1711
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 28
1906 - 1979
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 29
1650 - 1698
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 30
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 31
1859 - 1927
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 32
1865 - 1929
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 33
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 34
1574 - 1640
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 35
1865 - 1935
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 36
1873 - 1938
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 37
Among athletes born in Latvia, Jānis Lūsis ranks 1. After him are Inese Jaunzeme (1932), Alfred Neuland (1895), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947), Dainis Kūla (1959), Juris Silovs (1950), Ursula Donath (1931), George Gulack (1905), Jānis Ķipurs (1958), Ilmārs Bricis (1970), and Tomass Dukurs (1981).
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 1
1932 - 2011
HPI: 53.65
Rank: 2
1895 - 1966
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 3
1904 - 1978
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 4
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 5
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.30
Rank: 6
1950 - 2018
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 7
1931 - Present
HPI: 42.14
Rank: 8
1905 - 1987
HPI: 39.81
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 39.43
Rank: 10
1970 - Present
HPI: 33.74
Rank: 11
1981 - Present
HPI: 32.76
Rank: 12