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Milkha Singh

1935 - 2021

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Milkha Singh (20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021), also known as "The Flying Sikh", was an Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army. He is the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. He also won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milkha Singh has received more than 7,144,482 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Milkha Singh is the 232nd most popular athlete (down from 90th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Milkha Singhs by language

Over the past year Milkha Singh has had the most page views in the with 497,235 views, followed by Hindi (33,523), and Marathi (9,305). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (67.41%), Tamil (55.09%), and Zulu (50.00%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Milkha Singh ranks 232 out of 6,025. Before him are Joanni Perronet, Evelyn Furtsch, Argentina Menis, Viorica Viscopoleanu, Arthur L. Newton, and Walter Tewksbury. After him are Ugo Frigerio, Aleksander Klumberg, Dragutin Šurbek, Meriones, Ilmari Salminen, and Terry Fox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Milkha Singh ranks 216. Before him are Vladimir Aksyonov, France-Albert René, Richard M. Karp, Armando Picchi, Peter Brown, and Friðrik Ólafsson. After him are Belinda Lee, Nicola Cabibbo, Diahann Carroll, Tom Atkins, Enzo Jannacci, and Vitaly Sevastyanov. Among people deceased in 2021, Milkha Singh ranks 252. Before him are Gunilla Bergström, Edmund Gettier, Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Henri Schwery, B. J. Thomas, and Norman Lloyd. After him are Tahir Salahov, Jaime Lerner, Bell hooks, James Michael Tyler, Colin Bell, and Charles Konan Banny.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Milkha Singh ranks 57 out of 217. Before him are Kumail Nanjiani (1978), I. K. Gujral (1919), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Sunil Dutt (1929), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), and Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919). After him are Francis Younghusband (1863), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), and Gulzar (1934).

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Among ATHLETES In Pakistan

Among athletes born in Pakistan, Milkha Singh ranks 1. After him are Abdul Hamid (1927), Robbie Brightwell (1939), Noor Alam (1929), Prithipal Singh (1932), and Arshad Nadeem (1997).

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