BASKETBALL PLAYER

Sam Balter

1909 - 1998

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Samuel Balter Jr. (October 15, 1909 – August 8, 1998) was an American basketball player who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Balter has received more than 55,752 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sam Balter is the 283rd most popular basketball player (up from 301st in 2019), the 11,238th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,128th in 2019) and the 147th most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 56k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sam Balters by language

Over the past year Sam Balter has had the most page views in the with 6,063 views, followed by Russian (631), and Spanish (625). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (89.20%), Uzbek (88.55%), and Dutch (49.78%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Sam Balter ranks 283 out of 1,757. Before him are Sam Lacey, Ralph Bishop, Roger Grimau, Jimmy Butler, Larry Johnson, and Bobby Wanzer. After him are Joakim Noah, Gregor Fučka, Boris Diaw, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Ralph Sampson, and Damian Lillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Sam Balter ranks 399. Before him are Wallace Stegner, Philip G. Epstein, Bimal Roy, Howard Da Silva, Gregor Hradetzky, and C. Douglas Dillon. After him are Gertrude Abercrombie, Nobuo Arai, Robert Helpmann, Harold Smith, Roger Revelle, and Wim Lagendaal. Among people deceased in 1998, Sam Balter ranks 306. Before him are Ardalion Ignatyev, Rudy Dhaenens, Josephine Hutchinson, Hendrik Timmer, Claudia Testoni, and Wade Dominguez. After him are Richard Denning, Voitto Hellsten, Buddy Jeannette, Esther Rolle, Bill Reid, and Donald Woods.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Balter ranks 11,238 out of 20,380. Before him are Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900), Timothy Ray Brown (1966), Devendra Banhart (1981), Angus MacLise (1938), Rachel Levine (1957), and Dustin Farnum (1874). After him are Lea DeLaria (1958), Joakim Noah (1985), Bill Laswell (1955), Andy Tennant (1955), Rembrandt Peale (1778), and Ken Huszagh (1891).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Sam Balter ranks 147. Before him are Dwight Howard (1985), Sam Lacey (1948), Ralph Bishop (1915), Jimmy Butler (1989), Larry Johnson (1969), and Bobby Wanzer (1921). After him are Joakim Noah (1985), Ralph Sampson (1960), Damian Lillard (1990), Jeremy Lin (1988), Tom Thibodeau (1958), and Bob Love (1942).

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