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Myrtle Cook

1902 - 1985

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Myrtle Alice Cook (also competed as Myrtle McGowan) (January 5, 1902 – March 18, 1985) was a Canadian athlete who won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Myrtle Cook has received more than 33,833 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Myrtle Cook is the 15,742nd most popular politician (down from 13,255th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Canada (down from 329th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Canadian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 34k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Myrtle Cook ranks 15,742 out of 19,576. Before her are Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, Lloyd Bentsen, Ronald Plasterk, Dunja Mijatović, and Alfred Sant. After her are James Marape, Vilson Ahmeti, Tipper Gore, Kuupik Kleist, Guo Jinlong, and Anatoly Bibilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Myrtle Cook ranks 280. Before her are Antonio Maquilón, Beryl Markham, Brian Aherne, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Chill Wills, and Koloman Sokol. After her are Ann Harding, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Paul Sturzenegger, Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, and Hans Pulver. Among people deceased in 1985, Myrtle Cook ranks 226. Before her are C. B. van Niel, Paul Creston, Jacques de Lacretelle, Fritz Keller, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, and Richard Haydn. After her are Milton H. Greene, Lucien Michard, John Holt, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Aleksandra Khokhlova, and Jee Yong-ju.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Myrtle Cook ranks 475 out of 1,622. Before her are George-Étienne Cartier (1814), Chad Kroeger (1974), Wendy Crewson (1956), Tom Taylor (1880), Sarah Carter (1980), and Dwight Lodeweges (1957). After her are Viola Myers (1927), Douglas Bennett (1918), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Tamara Taylor (1970), Lawrence Lambe (1863), and Rae Dawn Chong (1961).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Myrtle Cook ranks 39. Before her are Brock Chisholm (1896), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), François Legault (1957), Pauline Marois (1949), and George-Étienne Cartier (1814). After her are Jennifer Granholm (1959), Ian Millar (1947), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), Gaétan Boucher (1958), Marc Garneau (1949), and Scotty Bowman (1933).

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