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Bill Roberts

1912 - 2001

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William Roberts (5 April 1912 – 5 December 2001) was an English sprinter and winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Roberts is the 263rd most popular athlete (up from 693rd in 2019), the 2,520th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,605th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bill Roberts ranks 263 out of 6,025. Before him are Roger Bannister, Harold Abrahams, Gretel Bergmann, Viorica Viscopoleanu, Silvio Cator, and Nina Ponomaryova. After him are August Nilsson, Galina Chistyakova, Ernesto Ambrosini, Josy Barthel, Francisco Lázaro, and Oscar Dessomville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Bill Roberts ranks 170. Before him are Wilfrid Sellars, Rudolf Vytlačil, Võ Chí Công, Kaneto Shindo, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov. After him are Alfred Schwarzmann, Barbara Hutton, Béla Király, Arne Brustad, Lev Kopelev, and Leslie Johnson. Among people deceased in 2001, Bill Roberts ranks 130. Before him are Jason Miller, Betty Everett, Marta Hillers, Jelle Zijlstra, Ziad Jarrah, and Burt Kennedy. After him are Nigel Hawthorne, William P. Rogers, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dorothy McGuire, Charles Helou, and Georgy Vitsin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bill Roberts ranks 2,521 out of 8,785. Before him are Josephine Tey (1896), Robert Whitehead (1823), Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950), Roger Deakins (1949), Tom Felton (1987), and Henry Roscoe (1833). After him are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Solomon (1902), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Samuel Smiles (1812), Jamie Dornan (1982), and Dodie Smith (1896).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Bill Roberts ranks 16. Before him are Don Thompson (1933), George S. Robertson (1872), Thomas Hicks (1876), Sebastian Coe (1956), Roger Bannister (1929), and Harold Abrahams (1899). After him are Alfred Tysoe (1874), Edwin Flack (1873), John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Jean Pickering (1929), Wally Kinnear (1880), and Ken McArthur (1881).

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