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Mel Sheppard

1883 - 1942

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Melvin Whinfield "Peerless Mel" Sheppard (September 5, 1883 – January 4, 1942) was an American athlete, member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of four gold medals and one silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mel Sheppard has received more than 57,290 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Mel Sheppard is the 471st most popular athlete (down from 338th in 2019), the 5,984th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,680th in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Mel Sheppard ranks 471 out of 6,025. Before him are Sotirios Versis, Rafael Chimishkyan, Arthur Russell, Georg Åberg, John Kuck, and Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. After him are John Thomas, Hermann Barrelet, Yurik Vardanyan, Charles Gmelin, Hans Günter Winkler, and Justin Gatlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Mel Sheppard ranks 185. Before him are Élie Lescot, Tom Moore, Gheorghe Argeșanu, Toivo Kuula, Olaf Bull, and Maurice Feltin. After him are Alberto Braglia, Oszkár Gerde, Enoch L. Johnson, Jacques Ochs, Marion Lorne, and Ernst Stadler. Among people deceased in 1942, Mel Sheppard ranks 181. Before him are Thomas Xenakis, Juhan Kukk, Jean Gilbert, José Díaz, Łucja Frey, and Ferdinand Albin Pax. After him are Renia Spiegel, Sergey Chaplygin, Nevile Henderson, Ludwig Aschoff, Hernando Siles Reyes, and Frank Irons.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mel Sheppard ranks 5,984 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael J. Pollard (1939), Daniel Burnham (1846), Emily Kinney (1985), Daniel Noboa (1987), Carol Morris (1936), and Mena Suvari (1979). After him are Susan George (1934), Steve Stevens (1959), Amy Ryan (1969), Paul Morrissey (1938), Darren Young (1983), and Agnes Ayres (1898).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Mel Sheppard ranks 110. Before him are Louis Abell (1884), Edward Cook (1888), Harry Stenqvist (1893), Louis Clarke (1901), Fred Alderman (1905), and John Kuck (1905). After him are John Thomas (1941), Justin Gatlin (1982), Charley Borah (1906), Glenn Morris (1912), Randy Williams (1953), and John Cregan (1878).

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