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S. I. Hayakawa

1906 - 1992

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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. I. Hayakawa has received more than 512,852 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. S. I. Hayakawa is the 17,410th most popular politician (down from 15,587th in 2019), the 705th most popular biography from Canada (down from 595th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Canadian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, S. I. Hayakawa ranks 17,410 out of 19,576. Before him are Michele Bachmann, Seiko Noda, Peter Fraser, Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and Emmanuel Nadingar. After him are Barbara Prammer, Désiré Rakotoarijaona, Connie Hedegaard, Süleyman Soylu, Rick Santorum, and Georges Vanier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, S. I. Hayakawa ranks 427. Before him are Irving Jaffee, Dunc Gray, Sue Carol, Einar Haugen, Albert Charles Smith, and Donald Woods. After him are William Bendix, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Jim Bausch, Esmond Knight, Richard van der Riet Woolley, and Catherine Cookson. Among people deceased in 1992, S. I. Hayakawa ranks 275. Before him are István Szívós, Kanan Devi, Dorothy Tree, Alif Hajiyev, Eddie Kendricks, and Maurice Perrin. After him are María Elena Moyano, Mary Wells, Cleavon Little, Sam Kinison, Bill Williams, and Fedor Samokhin.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, S. I. Hayakawa ranks 705 out of 1,622. Before him are Colin Carruthers (1890), Donald Woods (1906), Ruby Keeler (1909), Petar Rajič (1959), Chris Taylor (1950), and Sid Abel (1918). After him are Dean Crawford (1958), Georges Vanier (1888), Harold McMunn (1902), Finn Wolfhard (2002), Aaron Ashmore (1979), and Jonathan de Guzmán (1987).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, S. I. Hayakawa ranks 62. Before him are Norman Lane (1919), Jean Charest (1958), Jack Layton (1950), Chrystia Freeland (1968), Ken Dryden (1947), and Hilda Cameron (1912). After him are Georges Vanier (1888), Beattie Ramsay (1895), Ted Lindsay (1925), Kathleen Wynne (1953), Conrad Black (1944), and Hazel McCallion (1921).

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