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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 937,635 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Stan Mikita is the 13th most popular hockey player (down from 9th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 104th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Hockey Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Stan Mikita ranks 13 out of 364Before him are Jaromír Jágr, Phil Esposito, Jiří Holeček, René Fasel, Bobby Hull, and Vladimir Shadrin. After him are Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladimir Petrov, Mario Lemieux, Sergei Makarov, Jari Kurri, and Igor Larionov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Stan Mikita ranks 242Before him are Peter C. Doherty, John Mahoney, Teruki Miyamoto, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Ali Nasir Muhammad, and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla. After him are James Herbert Brennan, Lainie Kazan, Vincenzo Cerami, Kipchoge Keino, Larry Hankin, and Bruce Beresford. Among people deceased in 2018, Stan Mikita ranks 202Before him are John Mahoney, Stanislav Govorukhin, Kim Larsen, Tab Hunter, Tatyana Kuznetsova, and Juan Bautista Agüero. After him are Rosenda Monteros, Cecil Taylor, Philip Bosco, Leonid Kadeniuk, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, and Otis Rush.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Stan Mikita ranks 108 out of 357Before him are Juraj Herz (1934), Paul Kray (1735), Mikuláš Dzurinda (1956), Imre Németh (1917), Hana Hegerová (1931), and István Friedrich (1883). After him are Jaromil Jireš (1935), Andrej Kvašňák (1936), Pál Szinyei Merse (1845), Ján Chryzostom Korec (1924), Lya De Putti (1897), and Roland Jacobi (1893).

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among hockey players born in Slovakia, Stan Mikita ranks 1After him are Pavol Demitra (1974), Miroslav Šatan (1974), Zdeno Chára (1977), Marián Hossa (1979), Žigmund Pálffy (1972), Marián Gáborík (1982), Marcel Hossa (1981), Ladislav Nagy (1979), Michal Handzuš (1977), Július Hudáček (1988), and Jaroslav Halák (1985).