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Bob Falkenburg

1926 - 2022

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Robert Falkenburg (January 29, 1926 – January 6, 2022) was a Brazilian-American amateur tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the Men's Singles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships and introducing soft ice cream and American fast food to Brazil in 1952. He founded the Brazilian fast food chain Bob's. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Falkenburg is the 217th most popular tennis player (down from 190th in 2019), the 6,835th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,526th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Bob Falkenburg ranks 217 out of 1,569. Before him are Peter Fleming, Lilí Álvarez, Elina Svitolina, Wilfred Baddeley, Winifred McNair, and John Alexander. After him are Heinrich Schomburgk, Emma Raducanu, Owen Davidson, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Harold Mahony, and Balázs Taróczy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Bob Falkenburg ranks 323. Before him are Fritz Stern, Ede Király, Marcello Abbado, Pino Dordoni, Franco Faggi, and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. After him are Hakon Barfod, Carlos Roberto Reina, Fred Gwynne, Beatriz Segall, Rodolfo Pini, and Jan Zwartkruis. Among people deceased in 2022, Bob Falkenburg ranks 354. Before him are Rex Cawley, Nora Nova, David Cox, Andrei Sukhovetsky, Christiane Hörbiger, and Mark Lanegan. After him are Benjamin Kogo, Leszek Engelking, George Woods, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Guy Lafleur, and André Wilms.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Falkenburg ranks 6,837 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Verlaine (1949), Bill Lawrence (1968), Fat Lever (1960), Derek Luke (1974), John Jacob Abel (1857), and Susan Kohner (1936). After him are Eva Angelina (1985), John Hawkes (1959), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Rooney Mara (1985), Lynn Anderson (1947), and Emerson Spencer (1906).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Bob Falkenburg ranks 51. Before him are Mary Browne (1891), Don McNeill (1918), Carole Caldwell Graebner (1943), Clarence Clark (1859), Marion Zinderstein (1896), and Peter Fleming (1955). After him are Dick Savitt (1927), Bill Johnston (1894), Tony Trabert (1930), Dennis Ralston (1942), Andy Roddick (1982), and Gardnar Mulloy (1913).

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