1905 - 2005
Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (German pronunciation: [maks ˈʃmeːlɪŋ], audio ; 28 September 1905 – 2 February 2005) was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cultural events because of their national associations. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Schmeling has received more than 1,343,265 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Max Schmeling is the 7th most popular boxer (down from 6th in 2019), the 645th most popular biography from Germany (down from 575th in 2019) and the most popular German Boxer.
Max Schmeling was a German boxer who was most famous for his fight against Joe Louis in 1936. Schmeling won the fight and became the first person to defeat Louis.
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Among boxers, Max Schmeling ranks 7 out of 324. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, and George Foreman. After him are Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Sonny Liston, Rubin Carter, and Primo Carnera.
1942 - 2016
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1923 - 1969
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 2
1944 - 2011
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 3
1966 - Present
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 4
1914 - 1981
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 5
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 6
1905 - 2005
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 7
1977 - Present
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 8
1921 - 1989
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 9
1922 - 2017
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 10
1932 - 1970
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 11
1937 - 2014
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 12
1906 - 1967
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1905, Max Schmeling ranks 26. Before him are Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, Fred Trump, Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, and Emilio Segrè. After him are Franz Ziereis, Marian Rejewski, Gerard Kuiper, Ulf von Euler, Jean Vigo, and Nikolai Tikhonov. Among people deceased in 2005, Max Schmeling ranks 27. Before him are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, James Callaghan, Ezer Weizman, Anne Bancroft, Ernst Mayr, and Zdzisław Beksiński. After him are Pat Morita, Joseph Rotblat, Maria Schell, Lucien Laurent, Moustapha Akkad, and John Fowles.
1905 - 1991
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 20
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 21
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 22
1905 - 1966
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 23
1905 - 1970
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 24
1905 - 1989
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 25
1905 - 2005
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 26
1905 - 1945
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 27
1905 - 1980
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 28
1905 - 1973
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 29
1905 - 1983
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 30
1905 - 1934
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 31
1905 - 1997
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 32
1927 - 2005
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 21
1912 - 2005
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 22
1924 - 2005
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 23
1931 - 2005
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 24
1904 - 2005
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 25
1929 - 2005
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 26
1905 - 2005
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 27
1932 - 2005
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 28
1908 - 2005
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 29
1926 - 2005
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 30
1907 - 2005
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 31
1930 - 2005
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 32
1926 - 2005
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 33
Among people born in Germany, Max Schmeling ranks 645 out of 5,289. Before him are Ernst Chain (1906), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), Hermann von Salza (1170), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), and David Strauss (1808). After him are Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Günter Schabowski (1929), John of Saxony (1801), Carlos Kleiber (1930), and Gustav Heinemann (1899).
1906 - 1979
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 639
1929 - 2009
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 640
1170 - 1239
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 641
1818 - 1892
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 642
1870 - 1964
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 643
1808 - 1874
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 644
1905 - 2005
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 645
1856 - 1921
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 646
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 647
1929 - 2015
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 648
1801 - 1873
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 649
1930 - 2004
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 650
1899 - 1976
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 651
Among boxers born in Germany, Max Schmeling ranks 1. After him are Herbert Runge (1913), Wolfgang Behrendt (1936), Henry Maske (1964), and Felix Sturm (1979).
1905 - 2005
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 1
1913 - 1986
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 3
1964 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 4
1979 - Present
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 5