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Karl Hein

1908 - 1982

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Karl Hein (11 June 1908 – 10 July 1982) was a German hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Hein has received more than 32,651 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Karl Hein is the 311th most popular athlete (up from 329th in 2019), the 3,833rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,846th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Karl Hein ranks 311 out of 6,025. Before him are Helen Stephens, Virgilijus Alekna, Duje Bonačić, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, and Konstantinos Tsiklitiras. After him are Vilho Niittymaa, Yevgeny Grishin, Albert Tyler, Micheline Ostermeyer, Henri Deloge, and Camille Mandrillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Karl Hein ranks 207. Before him are Joseph Keilberth, Paolo Monti, Lars-Erik Larsson, Kočo Racin, Arkhip Lyulka, and Harald Reinl. After him are Mikayil Mushfig, Joshua Logan, Renzo Rossellini, George Pal, Myrtle Bachelder, and Marcel Langiller. Among people deceased in 1982, Karl Hein ranks 150. Before him are Juhan Aavik, Gábor Szabó, Gunnar Eriksson, Paolo Monti, Federico Moreno Torroba, and Lauri Virtanen. After him are Irmgard Keun, Renzo Rossellini, Sonny Stitt, Vladislao Cap, Haskell Curry, and Fritz Laband.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Hein ranks 3,833 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1805), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1553), Hans Klenk (1919), and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740). After him are Irmgard Keun (1905), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Albert Bassermann (1867), Rudolf von Bünau (1890), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), and Ruth Pfau (1929).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Karl Hein ranks 24. Before him are Margitta Gummel (1941), Gisela Mauermayer (1913), Renate Stecher (1950), Carl Diem (1882), Karin Balzer (1938), and Marlies Göhr (1958). After him are Gabriele Reinsch (1963), Birgit Fischer (1962), Marianne Werner (1924), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Udo Beyer (1955), and Annelie Ehrhardt (1950).

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