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Mary Peters

1939 - Today

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Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters (born 6 July 1939) is a Northern Irish former athlete and athletics administrator. She is best known as the 1972 Olympic champion in the pentathlon, for which she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Peters was named as Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter on 27 February 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Peters has received more than 13,717 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mary Peters is the 1,695th most popular athlete (down from 1,188th in 2019), the 4,992nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,598th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Athlete.

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  • 14k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Mary Peters ranks 1,695 out of 6,025. Before her are Zygmunt Chychła, Ronnie Ray Smith, Gisela Birkemeyer, Ruurd Leegstra, Angelo Vanzin, and Toivo Hyytiäinen. After her are Dorothy Shirley, Bent Peder Rasch, André Jousseaume, John Miller, Leroy Burrell, and Anni Holdmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Mary Peters ranks 534. Before her are R. D. Burman, Barbara Askins, Mavis Staples, Royce D. Applegate, Carl Yastrzemski, and Terry Paine. After her are Margaret Drabble, Dorothy Shirley, Vitali Davydov, Jan Szczepański, Robert A. M. Stern, and George M. Whitesides.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Peters ranks 4,992 out of 8,785. Before her are Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Duncan James (1978), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Laura Knight (1877), Zadie Smith (1975), and W. H. R. Rivers (1864). After her are Margaret Drabble (1939), Claude Buckenham (1876), Dorothy Shirley (1939), Coventry Patmore (1823), Owen Barfield (1898), and George Gilbert Scott (1811).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Mary Peters ranks 61. Before her are Don Finlay (1909), Charles Hefferon (1878), James Wilson (1891), Stan Vickers (1932), John Fenning (1885), and Sheila Lerwill (1928). After her are Dorothy Shirley (1939), Queenie Newall (1854), Gordon Pirie (1931), Ann Packer (1942), Audrey Williamson (1926), and Peter Wright (1970).

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