SWIMMER

Katie Ledecky

1997 - Today

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Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive swimmer. She has won seven Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. She has won a world record 16 individual gold medals at the World Aquatics Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katie Ledecky has received more than 7,826,433 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Katie Ledecky is the 55th most popular swimmer (up from 186th in 2019), the 7,133rd most popular biography from United States (up from 14,825th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Swimmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Katie Ledeckies by language

Over the past year Katie Ledecky has had the most page views in the with 999,783 views, followed by Italian (45,853), and Spanish (32,621). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (529.81%), Uzbek (333.62%), and Simple English (123.06%)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Katie Ledecky ranks 55 out of 709. Before her are Arati Saha, Fanny Durack, Edgar Adams, Hilde Schrader, John Derbyshire, and Carolyn Schuler. After her are Kusuo Kitamura, Nida Senff, Greta Johansson, John Arthur Jarvis, Erich Rademacher, and Barbara Krause.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1997, Katie Ledecky ranks 23. Before her are Alexander Zverev, Federico Chiesa, Chloë Grace Moretz, Renato Sanches, Marcus Thuram, and Malcom. After her are Luka Jović, Bella Thorne, Robert Sánchez, Asa Butterfield, Gabriel Jesus, and Kaoru Mitoma.

Others Born in 1997

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katie Ledecky ranks 7,133 out of 20,380. Before her are Stephen Decatur (1779), Dale Dye (1944), Nancy Cartwright (1957), J. E. Freeman (1946), Steve Aoki (1977), and Gregory La Cava (1892). After her are Alex Cord (1933), David Conrad (1967), James Rumbaugh (1947), Gayle Hunnicutt (1943), Doc Rivers (1961), and Alan Crosland (1894).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Katie Ledecky ranks 21. Before her are Clarke Scholes (1930), Irene Guest (1900), Albina Osipowich (1911), Ethel Lackie (1907), Edgar Adams (1868), and Carolyn Schuler (1943). After her are Ford Konno (1933), Lynn Burke (1943), Cathy Ferguson (1948), Bill Smith (1924), Chris von Saltza (1944), and Norman Ross (1895).

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