TENNIS PLAYER

René Lacoste

1904 - 1996

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Jean René Lacoste (2 July 1904 – 12 October 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929, and eventually founded the brand and its logo in 1933. Lacoste was one of the Four Musketeers with Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, and Henri Cochet, French players who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Lacoste has received more than 1,280,864 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). René Lacoste is the 4th most popular tennis player, the 586th most popular biography from France (down from 581st in 2019) and the most popular French Tennis Player.

René Lacoste is most famous for inventing the tennis shirt, which he called the "tennis shirt."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, René Lacoste ranks 4 out of 1,569. Before him are Björn Borg, Novak Djokovic, and Rod Laver. After him are Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Ilie Năstase, Fred Perry, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Roger Federer, and Martina Navratilova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, René Lacoste ranks 19. Before him are George Gamow, Alexei Kosygin, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Graham Greene, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and Karl Brandt. After him are Pavel Cherenkov, Hans Albert Einstein, Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, Glenn Miller, and Cary Grant. Among people deceased in 1996, René Lacoste ranks 15. Before him are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Whittle, and Tadeusz Reichstein. After him are Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Silvio Piola, Babrak Karmal, Gene Kelly, and Adolf Galland.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Lacoste ranks 586 out of 6,770. Before him are Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), Maurice Jarre (1924), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), and Henri Barbusse (1873). After him are Gérard de Nerval (1808), Joseph Proust (1754), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Roger Garaudy (1913), Margaret of Anjou (1430), and Françoise Hardy (1944).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In France

Among tennis players born in France, René Lacoste ranks 1. After him are Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Jean Borotra (1898), Max Decugis (1882), Henri Cochet (1901), Yannick Noah (1960), Jacques Brugnon (1895), Maurice Germot (1882), André Prévost (1860), André Gobert (1890), Gaël Monfils (1986), and Guy de la Chapelle (1868).

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