CHESS PLAYER

Sonja Graf

1908 - 1965

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Susanna "Sonja" Graf (December 16, 1908 – March 6, 1965) was a German and American chess player. She was a women's world championship runner-up and a two-time U.S. women's champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sonja Graf has received more than 45,514 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sonja Graf is the 114th most popular chess player (up from 140th in 2019), the 4,392nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,166th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 48.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Sonja Graf ranks 114 out of 461. Before her are Petar Trifunović, William Lombardy, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Ernst Falkbeer, and Nicolas Rossolimo. After her are Vasja Pirc, Daniel Harrwitz, Jackson Showalter, Alexander McDonnell, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, and Edgard Colle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Sonja Graf ranks 253. Before her are Nils Poppe, Hu Die, Erich Srbek, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Vladimir Kotelnikov, and Boris Rybakov. After her are Helmut Käutner, Aleksei Arbuzov, Demetrio Neyra, Walter Bruch, Luis de Souza Ferreira, and Alfred Eisenbeisser. Among people deceased in 1965, Sonja Graf ranks 149. Before her are Frederick Browning, Lars Hanson, E. E. Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson II, John Cregan, and Johnny Hayes. After her are Constance Bennett, Giorgio Zampori, Tommy Hampson, Reino Kuuskoski, Eric Backman, and Pietro Bianchi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sonja Graf ranks 4,392 out of 7,253. Before her are Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Marianne Hoppe (1909), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Heinrich von Sybel (1817). After her are Thomas Quasthoff (1959), Helmut Käutner (1908), Gustav von Alvensleben (1803), August Wilhelm Iffland (1759), Daniel Hopfer (1470), and Heide Rosendahl (1947).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Sonja Graf ranks 7. Before her are Louis Paulsen (1833), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Robert Hübner (1948), Jean Dufresne (1829), Jacques Mieses (1865), and Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935). After her are Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Carl Mayet (1810), Hermann Pilnik (1914), and Boris Gulko (1947).

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