1904 - 1996
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 tennis stars who dominated the game in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles at the French, American, and British championships and was an eminent baseline player and tactician of the pre-war period. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Lacoste has received more than 1,182,399 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). René Lacoste is the 4th most popular tennis player (down from 2nd in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from France (up from 600th 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."
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Among tennis players, René Lacoste ranks 4 out of 1,148. Before him are Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic, and Björn Borg. After him are Billie Jean King, Fred Perry, Roger Federer, Margaret Court, Manuel Santana, Ilie Năstase, Steffi Graf, and Martina Navratilova.
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1
1987 - Present
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 2
1956 - Present
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 3
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 4
1943 - Present
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 5
1909 - 1995
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 6
1981 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 7
1942 - Present
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 8
1938 - 2021
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 9
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 10
1969 - Present
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 11
1956 - Present
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1904, René Lacoste ranks 21. Before him are Karl Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Joan Crawford, George Gamow, Ève Curie, and Pavel Cherenkov. After him are Glenn Miller, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, John Hicks, and Luis Carrero Blanco. Among people deceased in 1996, René Lacoste ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Marguerite Duras, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Brodsky, and Babrak Karmal. After him are Paul Erdős, Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, Adolf Galland, Joan Clarke, and Gene Kelly.
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 15
1904 - 1988
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 16
1904 - 1977
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 17
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 18
1904 - 2007
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 19
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 20
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 21
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 22
1904 - 1966
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 23
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 24
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 25
1904 - 1989
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 26
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 27
1921 - 1996
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 8
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 9
1944 - 1996
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 10
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 11
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 12
1929 - 1996
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 13
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 14
1913 - 1996
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 15
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 16
1897 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 17
1912 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 18
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 19
1912 - 1996
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 20
Among people born in France, René Lacoste ranks 581 out of 6,011. Before him are Paul Dukas (1865), Roger I of Sicily (1031), Gaston Leroux (1868), Alaric II (458), Alfred de Musset (1810), and Pierre Richard (1934). After him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Jacques Monod (1910), Robert Bresson (1901), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Maurice Jarre (1924), and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712).
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 575
1031 - 1101
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 576
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 577
458 - 507
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 578
1810 - 1857
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 579
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 580
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 581
1769 - 1851
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 582
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 583
1901 - 1999
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 584
1394 - 1465
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 585
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 586
1712 - 1780
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 587
Among tennis players born in France, René Lacoste ranks 1. After him are Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Jean Borotra (1898), Henri Cochet (1901), Yannick Noah (1960), Max Decugis (1882), Jacques Brugnon (1895), André Prévost (1860), André Gobert (1890), Gaël Monfils (1986), Maurice Germot (1882), and Amélie Mauresmo (1979).
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 1
1899 - 1938
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 2
1898 - 1994
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 3
1901 - 1987
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 4
1960 - Present
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 5
1882 - 1978
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 6
1895 - 1978
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 7
1860 - 1919
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 8
1890 - 1951
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 9
1986 - Present
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 10
1882 - 1958
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 11
1979 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 12