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R. Norris Williams

1891 - 1968

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Richard "Dick" Norris Williams II (January 29, 1891 – June 2, 1968), generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American tennis player and RMS Titanic survivor. He won the U.S. National Tennis Championships in men's singles in 1914 and 1916. He was ranked the U.S. No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. Norris Williams has received more than 305,977 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). R. Norris Williams is the 58th most popular tennis player (down from 32nd in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 175th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, R. Norris Williams ranks 58 out of 1,148Before him are Maria Sharapova, William Renshaw, Martina Hingis, Naomi Osaka, Momčilo Tapavica, and Doris Hart. After him are Andrés Gimeno, Manuel Orantes, Jacques Brugnon, Anna Kournikova, Goran Ivanišević, and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, R. Norris Williams ranks 102Before him are Seth Barnes Nicholson, Damaskinos of Athens, Otto Ciliax, Ivan Vinogradov, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, and Antoine Pinay. After him are Abraham Fraenkel, Jan Mukařovský, Milton L. Humason, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Pavlo Tychyna, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt. Among people deceased in 1968, R. Norris Williams ranks 92Before him are Lilian Harvey, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Tian Han, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Tullio Serafin, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. After him are Gholamreza Takhti, Gabriel Hanot, Anthony Asquith, Herbert Read, Hitoshi Imamura, and Camille Huysmans.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, R. Norris Williams ranks 253 out of 876Before him are Wiborada (900), Emma Jung (1882), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Domenico Trezzini (1670), and Flavio Cotti (1939). After him are Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), and Lucien Favre (1957).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Switzerland

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