CHESS PLAYER

Walter Browne

1949 - 2015

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Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Browne has received more than 109,272 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Walter Browne is the 251st most popular chess player (down from 232nd in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Australia (down from 387th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Walter Browne ranks 251 out of 461. Before him are Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Viktor Gavrikov, Gregory Kaidanov, Leonid Yudasin, Lembit Oll, and Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya. After him are Joël Lautier, Igors Rausis, Aloyzas Kveinys, Mariya Muzychuk, Alisa Galliamova, and Anna Muzychuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Walter Browne ranks 756. Before him are Mick Mills, Jerry Harrison, Daniel Giger, Ernie Sabella, Hans Lutz, and Bruce Fairbairn. After him are Philip J. Currie, Junior Murvin, Joyce DeWitt, Ronald M. Evans, Frank L. Culbertson Jr., and Jenny Lamy. Among people deceased in 2015, Walter Browne ranks 511. Before him are Amanda Peterson, Ali Treki, Florența Mihai, Leon Brittan, George Clayton Johnson, and Janaki Ballabh Patnaik. After him are Jayne Meadows, Charles Correa, Taylor Negron, Eugenie Clark, Jonathan Crombie, and Aruna Shanbaug case.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Walter Browne ranks 466 out of 1,143. Before him are Luke Bracey (1989), Murray Bartlett (1971), Mitchell Langerak (1988), Zoe Caldwell (1933), Rachael Taylor (1984), and Mark Philippoussis (1976). After him are Kim Warwick (1952), Monica Mayhem (1978), Scott Dixon (1980), Shaun Tan (1974), DBC Pierre (1961), and Mary Augusta Ward (1851).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Australia

Among chess players born in Australia, Walter Browne ranks 1. 

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