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Gillis Grafström

1893 - 1938

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Gillis Emanuel Grafström (7 June 1893 – 14 April 1938) was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating (1920, 1924, 1928) as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships (1922, 1924, 1929). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gillis Grafström has received more than 107,066 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Gillis Grafström is the 4th most popular skater, the 229th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 268th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Gillis Grafström ranks 4 out of 315. Before him are Sonja Henie, Ulrich Salchow, and Axel Paulsen. After him are Katarina Witt, Tonya Harding, Clas Thunberg, Oleg Protopopov, Ondrej Nepela, Karl Schäfer, Ludmila Belousova, and Ard Schenk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Gillis Grafström ranks 67. Before him are Ernst Öpik, Dorothy Parker, Ivan Panfilov, Edsel Ford, Carl Værnet, and Dragiša Cvetković. After him are Mário de Andrade, Wilhelm Zaisser, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Conrad Veidt, Kurt Huber, and Federico Mompou. Among people deceased in 1938, Gillis Grafström ranks 58. Before him are Alfonsina Storni, Axel Paulsen, Leo Frobenius, César Vallejo, Ludwig Borchardt, and Yevhen Konovalets. After him are Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Leopold Godowsky, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Valery Chkalov, John Bates Clark, and Alexandru Averescu.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gillis Grafström ranks 229 out of 1,612. Before him are Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Princess Margaretha of Sweden (1899), Carl Johan Bernadotte (1916), Håkan Nesser (1950), John Ericsson (1803), and Henrik Larsson (1971). After him are Harry Nyquist (1889), Torbern Bergman (1735), Jan Guillou (1944), Joey Tempest (1963), Göran Persson (1949), and Thomas Bartholin (1616).

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Among SKATERS In Sweden

Among skaters born in Sweden, Gillis Grafström ranks 1. After him are Richard Johansson (1882), Per Thorén (1885), Åke Seyffarth (1919), Jonny Nilsson (1943), Sigvard Ericsson (1930), Göran Claeson (1945), and Nils van der Poel (1996).

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