TENNIS PLAYER

Louise Brough

1923 - 2014

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Althea Louise Brough Clapp (née Brough; March 11, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American tennis player. In her career between 1939 and 1959, she won six Grand Slam titles in singles as well as numerous doubles and mixed-doubles titles. At the end of the 1955 tennis season, Lance Tingay of the London Daily Telegraph ranked her world No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Brough has received more than 99,150 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Louise Brough is the 108th most popular tennis player (up from 159th in 2019), the 4,697th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,573rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Tennis Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 99k

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  • 51.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Louise Brough ranks 108 out of 1,569Before her are Kurt Nielsen, Tony Roche, Michael Chang, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Richard Sears, and Eric Sturgess. After her are Jana Novotná, Lennart Bergelin, Jim Courier, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Miloslav Mečíř, and Lilí Álvarez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Louise Brough ranks 230Before her are Misael Pastrana Borrero, Juan Arza, Juvenal Amarijo, Ida Vitale, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jesús Rafael Soto. After her are Barney Kessel, Jacob Taubes, Betsy Blair, Alice Coachman, Rafael Addiego Bruno, and Og Mandino. Among people deceased in 2014, Louise Brough ranks 200Before her are Andréa Parisy, Tom Finney, Richard Dürr, Joel Camargo, Samih al-Qasim, and Stanisław Mikulski. After her are György Lázár, Alice Coachman, Charlie Haden, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Dave Legeno, and José Emilio Pacheco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Brough ranks 4,697 out of 20,380Before her are Esai Morales (1962), Ed Ablowich (1913), Frankie Faison (1949), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), Ram Dass (1931), and Sanford Meisner (1905). After her are Glenn Curtiss (1878), Adam Driver (1983), William B. Travis (1809), Barry Corbin (1940), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), and Barney Kessel (1923).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Louise Brough ranks 24Before her are Vincent Richards (1903), William Larned (1872), Helen Wills (1905), Beals Wright (1879), Michael Chang (1972), and Richard Sears (1861). After her are Jim Courier (1970), Edgar Leonard (1881), Roscoe Tanner (1951), Jack Kramer (1921), Holcombe Ward (1878), and Helen Jacobs (1908).