TENNIS PLAYER

R. Norris Williams

1891 - 1968

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Richard Norris Williams II (January 29, 1891 – June 2, 1968), generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American tennis player and passenger aboard RMS Titanic. He survived the sinking of the Titanic. He won the U.S. National Tennis Championships in men's singles in 1914 and 1916. He was ranked the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. Norris Williams has received more than 354,436 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). R. Norris Williams is the 70th most popular tennis player (down from 58th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 253rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Tennis Player.

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  • 54.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, R. Norris Williams ranks 70 out of 1,569. Before him are Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Maria Sharapova, Nicola Pietrangeli, Momčilo Tapavica, Althea Gibson, and Anna Kournikova. After him are Doris Hart, Juan Gisbert Sr., Jacques Brugnon, Marat Safin, Martina Hingis, and Maurice Germot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, R. Norris Williams ranks 102. Before him are Alfred Meyer, Danilo Ilić, Julius Raab, Oskar Kummetz, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, and Wilder Penfield. After him are Alfred Wünnenberg, Béla Imrédy, Ahmad bin Yahya, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Abraham Fraenkel, and Earl Warren. Among people deceased in 1968, R. Norris Williams ranks 91. Before him are Ildebrando Pizzetti, Soraya Tarzi, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Duke Kahanamoku, Howard Florey, and Tullio Serafin. After him are Tallulah Bankhead, Tivadar Soros, Lilian Harvey, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Gholamreza Takhti, and Tian Han.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, R. Norris Williams ranks 255 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Heinz Holliger (1939), Marcel Koller (1960), Gustave Moynier (1826), and Ferdinand Kübler (1919). After him are Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Yann Sommer (1988), Abraham Trembley (1710), Ernst Brenner (1856), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), and Louis Zutter (1865).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among tennis players born in Switzerland, R. Norris Williams ranks 2. Before him are Roger Federer (1981). After him are Stan Wawrinka (1985), Marc Rosset (1970), Heinz Günthardt (1959), Patty Schnyder (1978), Belinda Bencic (1997), Bettina Bunge (1963), Timea Bacsinszky (1989), Emmanuelle Gagliardi (1976), Marco Chiudinelli (1981), and Viktorija Golubic (1992).

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