SOCCER PLAYER

Mia Hamm

1972 - Today

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Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm (born March 17, 1972) is an American former professional soccer player, two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion. Hailed as a soccer icon, she played as a forward for the United States national team from 1987 to 2004. Hamm was the face of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women's soccer league in the United States, where she played for the Washington Freedom from 2001 to 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mia Hamm has received more than 3,769,399 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Mia Hamm is the 1,854th most popular soccer player (up from 4,537th in 2019), the 4,970th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,165th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mia Hamms by language

Over the past year Mia Hamm has had the most page views in the with 585,288 views, followed by German (38,807), and French (33,326). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (213.15%), French (200.99%), and Italian (163.38%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mia Hamm ranks 1,854 out of 21,273Before her are Marcos Alonso, Ado, Don Revie, Aldo Donati, Zinho, and Ladislav Ženíšek. After her are Thomas Bickel, Coen Moulijn, Ștefan Dobay, Paulo Fonseca, Stefan Reuter, and Hasse Jeppson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Mia Hamm ranks 101Before her are Thandie Newton, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, Julie Benz, Aafia Siddiqui, Bae Yong-joon, and Billie Joe Armstrong. After her are Gabriel Macht, Ari Behn, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, Trine Dyrholm, and Samantha Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mia Hamm ranks 4,970 out of 20,380Before her are Leontyne Price (1927), Charles Yerkes (1837), Richard Speck (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Bryan Singer (1965), and William Eggleston (1939). After her are Sonny Stitt (1924), Gabriel Macht (1972), Asia Carrera (1973), Constance Towers (1933), Marsha Mason (1942), and Eugene Sledge (1923).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United States

Among soccer players born in United States, Mia Hamm ranks 2Before her are Bert Patenaude (1909). After her are Michelle Akers (1966), Landon Donovan (1982), Megan Rapinoe (1985), DeAndre Yedlin (1993), Al Harker (1910), Bruce Arena (1951), Christian Pulisic (1998), Tom Florie (1897), Brad Friedel (1971), and Alex Morgan (1989).