SKATER

Tony Hawk

1968 - Today

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Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American former professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. A pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding, Hawk completed the first documented "900" skateboarding trick in 1999. He also licensed a skateboarding video game series named after him, published by Activision that same year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Hawk has received more than 10,776,878 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Tony Hawk is the 23rd most popular skater (down from 20th in 2019), the 4,825th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,140th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Tony Hawk ranks 23 out of 483. Before him are Fred Anton Maier, Debbi Wilkes, Magda Julin, Roald Aas, Helene Engelmann, and Alain Calmat. After him are Alfred Berger, Ludowika Jakobsson, Karol Divín, Eric Heiden, Ernst Baier, and Ard Schenk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Tony Hawk ranks 116. Before him are Frédéric Diefenthal, Jana Novotná, Choi Jin-sil, Marcus Grönholm, Kelly Hu, and Paul Scheuring. After him are Giuseppe Signori, Vítor Pereira, Michael Weatherly, Debora Caprioglio, Billy Boyd, and Frank Leboeuf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tony Hawk ranks 4,825 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Scheuring (1968), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Sam Jaffe (1891), William Sanderson (1944), Stephen Collins (1947), and Ed Begley (1901). After him are Brandon Sanderson (1975), Helen Fisher (1945), George Bellows (1882), Jackie Wilson (1934), Robert Monroe (1915), and Greg Mankiw (1958).

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Among SKATERS In United States

Among skaters born in United States, Tony Hawk ranks 2. Before him are Tonya Harding (1970). After him are Eric Heiden (1958), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Charles Jewtraw (1900), Peggy Fleming (1948), Terry McDermott (1940), Tenley Albright (1935), David Jenkins (1936), Carol Heiss (1940), Ken Henry (1929), and Jeanne Ashworth (1938).

American born Skaters

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