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William Hoyt

1875 - 1954

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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 3,982 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. William Hoyt is the 270th most popular athlete (down from 166th in 2019), the 4,721st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,208th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, William Hoyt ranks 270 out of 6,025Before him are Dimitrios Golemis, Milka Babović, Harold Osborn, Karen Harup, Adolphe Grisel, and Vladimir Melanin. After him are Harald Grønningen, Oscar Pistorius, Sergey Litvinov, Blanka Vlašić, Zoltán Horváth, and Alexander Ragulin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, William Hoyt ranks 112Before him are Alexander Goldenweiser, Henri Callot, Kunio Yanagita, Italo Montemezzi, Leonor Michaelis, and Friedrich von Huene. After him are Otto Strandman, Adolfo Díaz, Ramiro de Maeztu, Elisabeth von Gutmann, William D. Leahy, and Fritz Manteuffel. Among people deceased in 1954, William Hoyt ranks 92Before him are Oswald de Andrade, Vilhelm Buhl, Mikhail Prishvin, Agus Salim, Franz Josef Popp, and Theodore Lyman IV. After him are Werner Bischof, Jacques Mieses, Zofia Nałkowska, Tang Enbo, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and Pyotr Leshchenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Hoyt ranks 4,721 out of 20,380Before him are Jesse Eisenberg (1983), Gene Tunney (1897), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Thomas Friedman (1953), Robert Leckie (1920), and Stormy Daniels (1979). After him are Claudette Colvin (1939), David Geffen (1943), Bill Goldberg (1966), John Singleton Copley (1738), IShowSpeed (2005), and Willie Garson (1964).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, William Hoyt ranks 61Before him are Ben Adams (1890), Francis Lane (1874), Evelyne Hall (1909), Donald Lippincott (1893), Ed Ablowich (1913), and Harold Osborn (1899). After him are Alice Coachman (1923), Mildred McDaniel (1933), Rafer Johnson (1935), Helen Stephens (1918), Albert Tyler (1872), and Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962).