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Ludwig Guttmann

1899 - 1980

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Sir Ludwig Guttmann (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Guttmann has received more than 986,668 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ludwig Guttmann is the 199th most popular physician (down from 153rd in 2019), the 1,373rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 990th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ludwig Guttmann ranks 199 out of 726. Before him are Louis Ignarro, Peter Agre, Paul Gachet, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Neferkare Neby, and Albert Calmette. After him are Waldemar Hoven, Zhang Zhongjing, Bernardino Ramazzini, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Asclepiades of Bithynia, and Emil du Bois-Reymond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Ludwig Guttmann ranks 60. Before him are Lao She, Lev Kuleshov, Andrei Platonov, Alma Reville, Fritz Bayerlein, and Brassaï. After him are Nadezhda Mandelstam, Philipp Bouhler, Georges Bidault, Louis Chiron, Burt Munro, and Princess Margaretha of Sweden. Among people deceased in 1980, Ludwig Guttmann ranks 63. Before him are Mario Bava, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Tôn Đức Thắng, Ian Curtis, and Heinz Linge. After him are Filipp Golikov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Seretse Khama, Winifred Wagner, and Hugh Griffith.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Guttmann ranks 1,373 out of 7,253. Before him are Heidi Klum (1973), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Bernhardus Varenius (1622), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen (1257), and Kurt Tucholsky (1890). After him are William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), Theodor Escherich (1857), Dettmar Cramer (1925), Günter Guillaume (1927), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Otto Kumm (1909).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ludwig Guttmann ranks 27. Before him are Carl Ludwig (1816), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), August von Wassermann (1866), Werner Haase (1900), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), and Sebastian Kneipp (1821). After him are Waldemar Hoven (1903), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), and Franciscus Sylvius (1614).

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