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Yvette Williams

1929 - 2019

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Dame Yvette Winifred Corlett (née Williams; 25 April 1929 – 13 April 2019) was a New Zealand track-and-field athlete who was the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal and to hold the world record in the women's long jump. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yvette Williams has received more than 119,397 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Yvette Williams is the 1,104th most popular athlete (down from 658th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 59th in 2019) and the 4th most popular New Zealander Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yvette Williams ranks 1,104 out of 6,025. Before her are Käthe Krauss, Finn Haunstoft, Thomas Munkelt, Tore Berger, Willie Davenport, and Cliff Bourland. After her are Willie Steele, Irina Beglyakova, Carl Goßler, Inha Babakova, Béla Békessy, and Imre Harangi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yvette Williams ranks 440. Before her are Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Eugène Parlier, Pentti Hämäläinen, Frans Andriessen, Raymond Bellot, and Mario Francesco Pompedda. After her are Saeed Jaffrey, Keijo Liinamaa, Olga Tass, Hal Blaine, Giacomo Capuzzi, and Alfredo Pérez. Among people deceased in 2019, Yvette Williams ranks 411. Before her are Ben Pon, Frans Andriessen, D. M. Jayaratne, Raymond Bellot, Sara Danius, and Judith Krantz. After her are King Kong Bundy, Klara Guseva, Stefan Angelov, Carlos Squeo, Hal Blaine, and Frank Robinson.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Yvette Williams ranks 64 out of 303. Before her are Vaughan Jones (1952), Lee Tamahori (1950), John Dew (1948), Martin Henderson (1974), Murray Halberg (1933), and Michael Hardie Boys (1931). After her are Jed Brophy (1963), John Key (1961), Andrew Adamson (1966), Hugh Walpole (1884), John Gorton (1911), and Silvia Cartwright (1943).

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Among ATHLETES In New Zealand

Among athletes born in New Zealand, Yvette Williams ranks 4. Before her are Peter Snell (1938), Hugh Anderson (1936), and Murray Halberg (1933). After her are Jack Lovelock (1910), Ross Collinge (1944), John Hunter (1943), Tony Hurt (1946), Trevor Coker (1949), John Walker (1952), Dudley Storey (1939), and Simon Dickie (1951).

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