VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

Karch Kiraly

1960 - Today

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Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly ( KARCH kirr-EYE; born November 3, 1960) is an American volleyball player, coach, and broadcast announcer. He was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He went on to win the gold medal again at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first Olympic competition to feature beach volleyball. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karch Kiraly has received more than 1,320,635 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Karch Kiraly is the most popular volleyball player (up from 5th in 2019), the 3,125th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,091st in 2019) and the most popular American Volleyball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Among volleyball players, Karch Kiraly ranks 1 out of 199. After him are Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Giba, Bernardo Rezende, Lang Ping, Josef Musil, Andrea Anastasi, Masae Kasai, Nikola Grbić, Yuriy Poyarkov, Vladimir Grbić, and Yuri Chesnokov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Karch Kiraly ranks 106. Before him are Susanne Bier, Axel Rudi Pell, Marcel Koller, Abdellatif Kechiche, Ahmed Jabari, and Abdullah Abdullah. After him are Mauro Tassotti, Erin Brockovich, Jennifer Rush, Yves Leterme, Stefano Casiraghi, and Bako Sahakyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Karch Kiraly ranks 3,125 out of 20,380. Before him are Leon Czolgosz (1873), Maila Nurmi (1922), Curtis Hanson (1945), Ernest King (1878), Sandra Dee (1942), and Mary-Louise Parker (1964). After him are Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Richard Thorpe (1896), Philip Baker Hall (1931), DMX (1970), Lauren Hutton (1943), and Abel Ferrara (1951).

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among volleyball players born in United States, Karch Kiraly ranks 1. After him are Kerri Walsh Jennings (1978), Clayton Stanley (1978), Lloy Ball (1972), Matt Anderson (1987), Micah Christenson (1993), David Smith (1985), Erik Shoji (1989), Kelsey Robinson (1992), Kimberly Hill (1989), Logan Tom (1981), and David Lee (1982).

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