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Cynisca

430 BC - 389 BC

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Cynisca (; or Kyniska, Greek: Κυνίσκα; born c. 440 BC) was a wealthy Spartan princess. She is famous for being the first woman to win at the Olympic Games. Cynisca first entered the Olympics in 396 BC, where she won first prize competing with a team of horses she had trained herself. In 392 BC, Cynisca entered her horses in the Olympics for a second time and was awarded another victory in the same event. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cynisca is the 5,761st most popular politician (down from 4,181st in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Greece (down from 263rd in 2019) and the 138th most popular Greek Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cynisca ranks 5,761 out of 19,576. Before her are Emperor Go-Kameyama, Jack Reed, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Tiberius, and Carlos Salinas de Gortari. After her are Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Almazbek Atambayev, Conrad Hilton, Tôn Đức Thắng, Archduke Eugen of Austria, and Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 430 BC, Cynisca ranks 3. Before her are Xenophon, and Dionysius I of Syracuse. After her are Aeschines of Sphettus, and Philistus. Among people deceased in 389 BC, Cynisca ranks 2. Before her is Thrasybulus.

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    Thrasybulus

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    440 BC - 389 BC

    HPI: 67.45

    Rank: 1

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    Cynisca

    POLITICIAN

    430 BC - 389 BC

    HPI: 65.57

    Rank: 2

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Cynisca ranks 325 out of 1,024. Before her are Anaxarchus (-380), Lais of Corinth (-400), Polemon (-400), Gregory V of Constantinople (1745), Agnes Baltsa (1944), and Hierocles of Alexandria (410). After her are Crates of Athens (-400), Agis III (-350), Pheidon (-700), Cleombrotus I (-500), Antiochus XII Dionysus (-150), and Andocides (-440).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Cynisca ranks 138. Before her are Loukas Notaras (1402), Andronikos Palaiologos (1400), Euphronios (-520), Cleisthenes of Sicyon (-701), Cylon of Athens (-700), and Lais of Corinth (-400). After her are Agis III (-350), Pheidon (-700), Cleombrotus I (-500), Antiochus XII Dionysus (-150), Andocides (-440), and Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (1965).

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