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Don Meineke

1930 - 2013

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Don "Monk" Meineke (October 30, 1930 – September 3, 2013) was an American basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Dayton and was a consensus second-team All-American in 1952. He later played professionally in the National Basketball Association and won the inaugural Rookie of the Year award in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Don Meineke is the 284th most popular basketball player (up from 298th in 2019), the 11,391st most popular biography from United States (up from 11,489th in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Don Meineke ranks 284 out of 1,757Before him are Carmelo Anthony, Chuck Cooper, Derrick White, Artis Gilmore, Victor Wembanyama, and Luis Scola. After him are Kyrie Irving, Hedo Türkoğlu, Fernando Martín Espina, Maurice Stokes, Jack Ragland, and Željko Rebrača.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Don Meineke ranks 582Before him are Ronald Stretton, Adebayo Adedeji, Nikolai Puchkov, Lynden Pindling, Marie Corridon, and Mary Costa. After him are Sándor Csoóri, Jim Loscutoff, G. Gordon Liddy, Yuri Krylov, Yves Delacour, and Barry Unsworth. Among people deceased in 2013, Don Meineke ranks 459Before him are Derek Kevan, Viktor Zinger, Allan Arbus, Henry Taylor, Richard Briers, and Bill Smith. After him are José María Maguregui, Vladimir Vikulov, Marina Solodkin, Robin Sachs, Bruce C. Murray, and Wilbur Thompson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Meineke ranks 11,393 out of 20,380Before him are Charles J. Folger (1818), Jennison Heaton (1904), Raja Gosnell (1958), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975), H. Bruce Humberstone (1901), and Richard Florida (1957). After him are George Bonhag (1882), Omar Hakim (1959), Joseph Mazzello (1983), Dan Dailey (1915), Marv Wolfman (1946), and Hugh McCulloch (1808).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Don Meineke ranks 159Before him are Al Attles (1936), Spud Webb (1963), Carmelo Anthony (1984), Chuck Cooper (1926), Derrick White (1994), and Artis Gilmore (1949). After him are Maurice Stokes (1933), Jack Ragland (1913), Gus Williams (1953), Ralph Bishop (1915), Tex Gibbons (1907), and Jim Loscutoff (1930).