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Verne Gagne

1926 - 2015

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Laverne Clarence Gagne (February 26, 1926 – April 27, 2015) was an American amateur and professional wrestler, football player, wrestling trainer and wrestling promoter. He was the owner and promoter of the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association (AWA), the predominant promotion throughout the Midwest and Manitoba for many years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Verne Gagne has received more than 1,469,016 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Verne Gagne is the 145th most popular wrestler (down from 118th in 2019), the 8,044th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,343rd in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Wrestler.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Verne Gagne ranks 145 out of 700Before him are Ken Shamrock, Joseph Olivier, Big Van Vader, Mick Foley, Stephanie McMahon, and Shinobu Sekine. After him are Kurt Pettersén, Takehide Nakatani, Jeff Hardy, László Papp, Rhyno, and Nicolae Martinescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Verne Gagne ranks 367Before him are Alison Lurie, Günter de Bruyn, Tapio Mäkelä, Moshe Sanbar, Adriano Directo Emperado, and Richard DeVos. After him are Aldo Ray, Joe Slovo, H. C. Robbins Landon, Uttam Kumar, Tim LaHaye, and Wolfgang Seidel. Among people deceased in 2015, Verne Gagne ranks 334Before him are Jouko Törmänen, Pál Várhidi, Rakhat Aliyev, Zhanna Yorkina, Nirmala Joshi, and David Canary. After him are Andy White, Saeed Jaffrey, Haskell Wexler, Bengt Berndtsson, Mary Ellen Mark, and Gennadiy Seleznyov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Verne Gagne ranks 8,044 out of 18,182Before him are Robert Alda (1914), Wally Pfister (1961), Flo Rida (1979), Ronnie Bucknum (1936), Lonnie Johnson (1899), and Dan Marino (1961). After him are David Clennon (1943), Mike Vogel (1979), Joel Glazer (1970), Jane Colden (1724), Aldo Ray (1926), and Jeremy Camp (1978).

Among WRESTLERS In United States

Among wrestlers born in United States, Verne Gagne ranks 53Before him are Lex Luger (1958), Bubba Ray Dudley (1971), Ken Shamrock (1964), Big Van Vader (1955), Mick Foley (1965), and Stephanie McMahon (1976). After him are Jeff Hardy (1977), Rhyno (1975), King Kong Bundy (1955), Mark Schultz (1960), Theodore Long (1947), and Jerry Lawler (1949).