SWIMMER

Martha Norelius

1909 - 1955

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Martha Maria Norelius (January 22, 1909 – September 25, 1955) was a Swedish-born American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in five different freestyle swimming events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martha Norelius has received more than 27,189 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Martha Norelius is the 64th most popular swimmer (down from 53rd in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 851st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Swimmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Martha Noreliuses by language

Over the past year Martha Norelius has had the most page views in the with 2,863 views, followed by Chinese (680), and Russian (537). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (95.83%), Catalan (47.85%), and Croatian (29.20%)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Martha Norelius ranks 64 out of 709Before her are Greta Johansson, John Arthur Jarvis, Erich Rademacher, Barbara Krause, Ford Konno, and Emil Rausch. After her are Lynn Burke, Cathy Ferguson, Ragnhild Hveger, Bill Smith, Pontus Hanson, and Chris von Saltza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Martha Norelius ranks 326Before her are Dieter Borsche, Anna Świrszczyńska, Chester Himes, Sergey Gritsevets, Elis Wiklund, and Ivan Fuqua. After her are Bill Carr, Giovanni Palatucci, Julius J. Epstein, Rune Carlsson, Frank Wykoff, and Koichi Kudo. Among people deceased in 1955, Martha Norelius ranks 136Before her are Johan Jarlén, Luís de Freitas Branco, Shemp Howard, Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, Arturo Coddou, and Harry Cobby. After her are Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, Constance Collier, José Antonio Remón Cantera, Edwin Barclay, James P. Johnson, and Giuseppe Domenichelli.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Martha Norelius ranks 870 out of 1,879Before her are Erik Pettersson (1944), Arne Månsson (1925), John Levén (1963), Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (1944), Erik Almlöf (1891), and Per Ahlmark (1939). After her are Daniel Norling (1888), Anders Johansson (1962), Alf Kjellin (1920), Gunnar Jansson (1907), Jan Boklöv (1966), and Gösta Åsbrink (1881).

Among SWIMMERS In Sweden

Among swimmers born in Sweden, Martha Norelius ranks 3Before her are Arne Borg (1901), and Greta Johansson (1895). After her are Pontus Hanson (1884), Åke Borg (1901), Gunnar Larsson (1951), Sarah Sjöström (1993), Therese Alshammar (1977), Bengt Baron (1962), Lars Frölander (1974), Anders Holmertz (1968), and Sara Nordenstam (1983).