1875 - 1954
William Welles Hoyt (born May 7, 1875, in Glastonbury, Connecticut; died December 1, 1954, in Cambridge, New York) was an American track and field athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hoyt has received more than 3,748 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). William Hoyt is the 166th most popular athlete (down from 129th in 2019), the 4,220th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,705th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Athlete.
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Among athletes, William Hoyt ranks 166 out of 3,059. Before him are Esther Brand, Gunnar Höckert, Margitta Gummel, Imre Németh, Bobby Pearce, and Eugen Schmidt. After him are Charles Dvorak, Ethel Smith, Viorica Viscopoleanu, Chris Dickerson, Helen Stephens, and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam.
1922 - 2015
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 160
1910 - 1940
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 161
1941 - 2021
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 162
1917 - 1989
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 163
1905 - 1976
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 164
1862 - 1931
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 165
1875 - 1954
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 166
1878 - 1969
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 167
1907 - 1979
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 168
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 169
1939 - 2021
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 170
1918 - 1994
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 171
1929 - 2000
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 172
Among people born in 1875, William Hoyt ranks 94. Before him are Erkki Melartin, Paul Neumann, Otto Gessler, Vladimir Filatov, Laurence Doherty, and Leonor Michaelis. After him are Otto Ender, J. Stuart Blackton, Kunio Yanagita, Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Issai Schur, and Ramiro de Maeztu. Among people deceased in 1954, William Hoyt ranks 76. Before him are Rudolf Beran, Friedrich Meinecke, Mikhail Prishvin, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Oswald de Andrade, and Omer Nishani. After him are Werner Bischof, Édouard Le Roy, Lucien Tesnière, Émile Mâle, Pyotr Leshchenko, and Franz Josef Popp.
1875 - 1937
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 88
1875 - 1932
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 89
1875 - 1955
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 90
1875 - 1956
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 91
1875 - 1919
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 92
1875 - 1949
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 93
1875 - 1954
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 94
1875 - 1960
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 95
1875 - 1941
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 96
1875 - 1962
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 97
1875 - 1943
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 98
1875 - 1941
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 99
1875 - 1936
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 100
1887 - 1954
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 70
1862 - 1954
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 71
1873 - 1954
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 72
1883 - 1954
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 73
1890 - 1954
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 74
1887 - 1954
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 75
1875 - 1954
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 76
1916 - 1954
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 77
1870 - 1954
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 78
1893 - 1954
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 79
1862 - 1954
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 80
1898 - 1954
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 81
1886 - 1954
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 82
Among people born in United States, William Hoyt ranks 4,220 out of 18,182. Before him are Wallace Stevens (1879), Benny Urquidez (1952), Carol Lynley (1942), Bruce Sterling (1954), Floyd Westerman (1936), and Joanne Dru (1922). After him are Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Bob Balaban (1945), Terrence Howard (1969), Margaret Sullavan (1909), and Fernando J. Corbató (1926).
1879 - 1955
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 4,214
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 4,215
1942 - 2019
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 4,216
1954 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,217
1936 - 2007
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,218
1922 - 1996
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,219
1875 - 1954
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,220
1972 - 1972
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,221
1892 - 1950
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,222
1945 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,223
1969 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,224
1909 - 1960
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,225
1926 - 2019
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 4,226
Among athletes born in United States, William Hoyt ranks 39. Before him are Thomas Curtis (1873), Lee Evans (1947), John Carlos (1945), Harrison Dillard (1923), Bob King (1906), and Ralph Boston (1939). After him are Charles Dvorak (1878), Chris Dickerson (1939), Helen Stephens (1918), Harry Porter (1882), Ralph Rose (1885), and William Porter (1926).
1873 - 1944
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 33
1947 - 2021
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 34
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 35
1923 - 2019
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 36
1906 - 1965
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 37
1939 - 2023
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 38
1875 - 1954
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 39
1878 - 1969
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 40
1939 - 2021
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 41
1918 - 1994
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 42
1882 - 1965
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 43
1885 - 1913
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 44
1926 - 2000
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 45