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William Porter

1926 - 2000

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William "Bill" Franklin Porter III (March 24, 1926 – March 10, 2000) was an American track and field athlete, gold medal winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Jackson, Michigan, Porter attended the Jackson High School, but did not compete in any sport there. He took up hurdle running while attending The Hill School in Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Porter has received more than 23,678 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William Porter is the 191st most popular athlete (up from 331st in 2019), the 4,471st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,661st in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Athlete.

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  • 50.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, William Porter ranks 191 out of 3,059Before him are August Nilsson, Natalya Lisovskaya, Nadezhda Chizhova, Evangelos Damaskos, Egil Danielsen, and Reggie Walker. After him are Lauri Virtanen, Elias Katz, Kipchoge Keino, Birgit Fischer, Nina Ponomaryova, and Harry Hillman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, William Porter ranks 221Before him are Julie Adams, Bal Thackeray, Julio Pérez, Richard Yates, Bhupen Hazarika, and Carl Adam Petri. After him are Christine Jorgensen, Ibrahim Nasir, Allan Sandage, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Janet Asimov, and Ricardo María Carles Gordó. Among people deceased in 2000, William Porter ranks 143Before him are Franco Rossi, David Tomlinson, Teruki Miyamoto, Franco Donatoni, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, and Penelope Fitzgerald. After him are W. D. Hamilton, Walter Berry, Ernst Jandl, Jerzy Giedroyc, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Ansumane Mané.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Porter ranks 4,471 out of 18,182Before him are John Trumbull (1756), James Kottak (1962), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), E. G. Marshall (1914), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Ambrose Burnside (1824). After him are Thom Barry (1950), Holt McCallany (1963), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Pat Benatar (1953), Neal McDonough (1966), and Randall Collins (1941).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, William Porter ranks 45Before him are William Hoyt (1875), Charles Dvorak (1878), Chris Dickerson (1939), Helen Stephens (1918), Harry Porter (1882), and Ralph Rose (1885). After him are Harry Hillman (1881), Johnny Hayes (1886), Charley Paddock (1900), Platt Adams (1885), Parry O'Brien (1932), and Samuel Jones (1880).