RACING DRIVER

Lee Wallard

1910 - 1963

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Leland Wallard (September 7, 1910 – November 29, 1963) was an American racing driver. After a slow start to his career, the unheralded Wallard scored a "Cinderella" victory, authoring a dominating performance in the 1951 Indianapolis 500. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Wallard has received more than 54,769 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Lee Wallard is the 210th most popular racing driver (up from 217th in 2019), the 4,303rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,592nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Racing Driver.

Memorability Metrics

  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lee Wallards by language

Over the past year Lee Wallard has had the most page views in the with 8,705 views, followed by Italian (4,106), and French (3,782). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (275.94%), Malagasy (161.50%), and Egyptian Arabic (136.62%)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Lee Wallard ranks 210 out of 1,080. Before him are Ignazio Giunti, Derek Warwick, Kenny Roberts, Andrea de Adamich, Pedro de la Rosa, and Harry Schell. After him are Olivier Gendebien, Felice Bonetto, Satoru Nakajima, Richard Robarts, Kurt Adolff, and Jutta Kleinschmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Lee Wallard ranks 174. Before him are José María Guido, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Arsenie Boca, Ángel Sanz Briz, and Paulette Dubost. After him are Alfons Maria Stickler, Ram Manohar Lohia, Pál Turán, Stanislaus Kobierski, Maxim Munzuk, and László Cseh. Among people deceased in 1963, Lee Wallard ranks 100. Before him are Maria Tănase, Patsy Cline, Shinobu Ishihara, Alan Gardiner, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Barnum Brown. After him are Richard Oswald, André Maschinot, Guy Burgess, Pierre Blanchar, Erik Lundqvist, and Vissarion Shebalin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Wallard ranks 4,303 out of 20,380. Before him are Hugh McDonald (1950), Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943), Don Nelson (1940), Michael Johnson (1967), Billy Hayes (1947), and John Tukey (1915). After him are Ray Dalio (1949), Eve Meyer (1928), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Cyrus West Field (1819), Brock Lesnar (1977), and Stephen Cook (1939).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United States

Among racing drivers born in United States, Lee Wallard ranks 9. Before him are Ken Block (1967), Dan Gurney (1931), Richie Ginther (1930), Wayne Rainey (1960), Brett Lunger (1945), and Kenny Roberts (1951). After him are Rikky von Opel (1947), Peter Revson (1939), Richard Petty (1937), Kevin Schwantz (1964), George Constantine (1918), and Mark Donohue (1937).

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