HANDBALL PLAYER

Ștefan Birtalan

1948 - Today

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Ştefan Birtalan (born 25 September 1948) is a former Romanian handball player, coach and sports official. Birtalan was one of the best players of his time and was named the World Player of the Year in 1974, 1976 and 1977. He spent most of his club career with Steaua București, winning with them 12 Romanian championships and the European Champions Cup in 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ștefan Birtalan has received more than 21,075 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ștefan Birtalan is the 19th most popular handball player (down from 17th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Romania (down from 385th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Handball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ștefan Birtalans by language

Over the past year Ștefan Birtalan has had the most page views in the with 4,719 views, followed by English (2,977), and German (1,049). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (64.22%), Catalan (63.16%), and Finnish (59.24%)

Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Ștefan Birtalan ranks 19 out of 420. Before him are Andrey Lavrov, Edgar Reinhardt, Vladimir Maksimov, Vlado Šola, Wilhelm Baumann, and Goran Perkovac. After him are Zoran Živković, Albin Vidović, Katrine Lunde, Georg Dascher, Wilhelm Brinkmann, and Thierry Omeyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ștefan Birtalan ranks 513. Before him are Rudy Tomjanovich, Arnie Robinson, Jonathan Sacks, Nick Mancuso, Cathy Ferguson, and John Dew. After him are Lindsay Crouse, Zhou Xiaochuan, Carme Riera, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Colleen Atwood, and José Luis Capón.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ștefan Birtalan ranks 420 out of 844. Before him are Ion Emanuel Florescu (1819), Samuel Zauber (1901), Grigore Moisil (1906), Simona Halep (1991), Leon Rotman (1934), and Dan Pagis (1930). After him are Virginia Ruzici (1955), Corneliu Robe (1908), László Németh (1901), Silviu Lung (1956), Petre S. Aurelian (1833), and Michael Klein (1959).

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In Romania

Among handball players born in Romania, Ștefan Birtalan ranks 2. Before him are Gheorghe Gruia (1940). After him are Radu Voina (1950), Cristian Gațu (1945), Cristina Neagu (1988), Marian Cozma (1982), Gheorghe Dogărescu (1960), and Mihaela Ciobanu (1973).

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