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TENNIS PLAYER

Maria Bueno

1939 - 2018

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Maria Esther Andion Bueno (11 October 1939 – 8 June 2018) was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 major titles (seven in women's singles, 11 in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles), making her the most successful South American tennis player in history, and the only one to ever win Wimbledon. Bueno was the year-end No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Bueno has received more than 360,559 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Maria Bueno is the 39th most popular tennis player (up from 41st in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 155th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Tennis Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

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  • 55.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Maria Bueno ranks 39 out of 1,148Before her are Stefan Edberg, Jean Borotra, Ken Rosewall, Bill Tilden, Mansour Bahrami, and Nasser Al-Khelaifi. After her are Jan Kodeš, John Newcombe, Pancho Gonzales, Henri Cochet, Monica Seles, and Gabriela Sabatini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Maria Bueno ranks 133Before her are Norman Davies, Alan Baker, Vladimir Menshov, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Kim Jae-ryong, and Paul Sorvino. After her are Susan Flannery, George Hamilton, Ali Farka Touré, Eduard Kukan, Adelardo Rodríguez, and Leo Brouwer. Among people deceased in 2018, Maria Bueno ranks 108Before her are Uri Avnery, Bruno Sammartino, Richard Pipes, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kim Jong-pil, and Alan Baker. After her are Margot Kidder, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Michael Anderson, Michael Halliday, Jozef Adamec, and Raymond Chow.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Maria Bueno ranks 140 out of 2,067Before her are Princess Januária of Brazil (1822), Washington Luís (1869), Pierre Clostermann (1921), Oscar (1954), Thiago Silva (1984), and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (1847). After her are Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1883), Olavo de Carvalho (1947), Zé Roberto (1974), Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain (1811), Milton Nascimento (1942), and Domingos da Guia (1912).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Brazil

Among tennis players born in Brazil, Maria Bueno ranks 1After her are Gustavo Kuerten (1976), Marcelo Melo (1983), Bruno Soares (1982), Thomaz Bellucci (1987), André Sá (1977), Marc-Kevin Goellner (1970), Beatriz Haddad Maia (1996), Rogério Dutra Silva (1984), Marcos Daniel (1978), Laura Pigossi (1994), and Teliana Pereira (1988).