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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 3,748 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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In United States

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).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

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).

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