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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 12,805 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mary Peters is the 1,189th most popular athlete (down from 932nd in 2019), the 4,607th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,598th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Athlete.

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  • 13k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Mary Peters ranks 1,189 out of 3,059. Before her are Salvatore Morale, Eugène Mougin, Aleksandr Privalov, Emmett Toppino, Ruhi Sarıalp, and Willie Steele. After her are János Parti, Frank Waller, László Berti, Tranquilo Cappozzo, Kalle Jalkanen, and Jack Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Mary Peters ranks 470. Before her are Alexey Korneyev, Wilhelm Bungert, Don Williams, Robert A. M. Stern, Josef Černý, and Jose Maria Sison. After her are Harvey Pekar, Sergio Bianchetto, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Gianfranco Leoncini, Józef Grudzień, and Jet Harris.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Peters ranks 4,607 out of 7,765. Before her are Olivia Manning (1908), Alex Stepney (1942), Richard K. Guy (1916), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), William Cobbett (1763), and Patricia Quinn (1944). After her are Kenneth McAlpine (1920), Lawrence Stone (1919), Jeremy Spencer (1948), Stuart Pearce (1962), David Thompson (1770), and Peter Chelsom (1956).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Mary Peters ranks 38. Before her are Henry Macintosh (1892), Norman Read (1931), John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Harry Blackstaffe (1868), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), and Victor d'Arcy (1887). After her are Cecil Griffiths (1900), Jayne Torvill (1957), Tom Richards (1910), Gordon Pirie (1931), Audrey Williamson (1926), and Stan Vickers (1932).

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