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Mo Farah

1983 - Today

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Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah (born Hussein Abdi Kahin; 23 March 1983) is a Somali-born British retired long-distance runner. Considered one of the greatest runners of all time, his ten global championship gold medals (four Olympic and six World titles) make him the most successful male track distance runner ever, and he is the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history. Farah is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in both the 5,000 m and 10,000 m. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mo Farah has received more than 7,909,654 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Mo Farah is the 1,531st most popular athlete (down from 821st in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Somalia (up from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Somali Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mo Farahs by language

Over the past year Mo Farah has had the most page views in the with 562,471 views, followed by French (43,891), and Japanese (29,730). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (1,496.15%), Uzbek (509.09%), and Simple English (134.29%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Mo Farah ranks 1,531 out of 6,025Before him are Carl Kaufmann, Tibor Tatai, Aldo Ghira, Heinz Ulzheimer, Charles Marion, and Jean Boiteux. After him are Mikhail Zhelev, Robert Korzeniowski, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Mia Gommers, Bo Ekelund, and Harry Steevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Mo Farah ranks 126Before him are Atiba Hutchinson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jung Kyung-ho, Michael Krohn-Dehli, Wang Hao, and Danny. After him are Mika Nakashima, Jasmin Moghbeli, Vít Jedlička, Katie McGrath, Esther Acebo, and Mamoru Miyano.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Mo Farah ranks 24 out of 58Before him are Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962), Hassan Ali Khayre (1968), Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (1928), Abdi Farah Shirdon (1958), Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (1964), and Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur (1931). After him are Hawa Abdi (1947), Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (1912), Dahir Riyale Kahin (1952), Hussein Farrah Aidid (1962), Mohamed Hussein Roble (1963), and Omar Sharmarke (1960).

Among ATHLETES In Somalia

Among athletes born in Somalia, Mo Farah ranks 1After him are Abdi Bile (1962), Samia Yusuf Omar (1991), Mohamed Suleiman (1969), Abdi Nageeye (1989), and Mohammed Ahmed (1991).