HOCKEY PLAYER

Stan Mikita

1940 - 2018

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Stanley Mikita (born Stanislav Guoth; May 20, 1940 – August 7, 2018) was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stan Mikita has received more than 986,189 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Stan Mikita is the 13th most popular hockey player, the 120th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 108th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Hockey Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 990k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Stan Mikita ranks 13 out of 676. Before him are Václav Nedomanský, Georges Vézina, Jiří Holeček, Bobby Hull, Jaromír Jágr, and Sergei Makarov. After him are Phil Esposito, Vladimir Petrov, Viacheslav Fetisov, Mario Lemieux, Henri Richard, and Bobby Orr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Stan Mikita ranks 262. Before him are Tommy Lawrence, Robby Müller, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Danilo Astori, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla. After him are Chip Taylor, Ronald Pickup, Silva Batuta, Barry Corbin, Vladica Kovačević, and Alain Calmat. Among people deceased in 2018, Stan Mikita ranks 216. Before him are Tommy Lawrence, Robert Kerman, Robby Müller, Lydia Clarke, Rolf Hoppe, and Sabahudin Kurt. After him are Arie den Hartog, Luis Posada Carriles, Sergey Litvinov, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stanley Cavell, and Kim Yong-chun.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Stan Mikita ranks 120 out of 418. Before him are Pavel Peter Gojdič (1888), Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766), Ján Čarnogurský (1944), Ernest Nagel (1901), Miroslav Lajčák (1963), and Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817). After him are Jaromil Jireš (1935), Marián Masný (1950), Ján Chryzostom Korec (1924), Margit Slachta (1884), Pál Szinyei Merse (1845), and Ignatz Kolisch (1837).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among hockey players born in Slovakia, Stan Mikita ranks 1. After him are Ladislav Troják (1914), Pavol Demitra (1974), Zdeno Chára (1977), Marián Hossa (1979), Miroslav Šatan (1974), Žigmund Pálffy (1972), Róbert Švehla (1969), Marcel Hossa (1981), Július Hudáček (1988), Ladislav Nagy (1979), and Marián Gáborík (1982).

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