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Jim Thorpe

1887 - 1953

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James Francis Thorpe (Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the contemporary amateurism rules. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Thorpe is the 301st most popular athlete (down from 131st in 2019), the 4,735th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,237th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jim Thorpe ranks 301 out of 6,025. Before him are Egil Danielsen, Bill Miller, Juan Carlos Zabala, Walter Byron, Larry Black, and Netti Witziers-Timmer. After him are Gyula Zsivótzky, Albert Ayat, Romuald Klim, Alain Mimoun, Eddie Tolan, and Frank Waller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jim Thorpe ranks 146. Before him are Heino Eller, Ricardo Wolf, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Abolqasem Lahouti, Ernst Wiechert, and Armen Ohanian. After him are Jorge Chávez, Omer Nishani, Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, Chico Marx, Hristo Lukov, and Sylvia Beach. Among people deceased in 1953, Jim Thorpe ranks 97. Before him are Sophia Hayden, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Kyuichi Tokuda, Jan Czochralski, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and Dámaso Berenguer. After him are Titta Ruffo, Felice Bonetto, Charles de Tornaco, Tamar Abakelia, Evgeny Paton, and Oscar Goßler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Thorpe ranks 4,735 out of 20,380. Before him are Judith Reisman (1935), Nick Cravat (1912), Misha Collins (1974), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Huey Long (1893), and Jay Wright Forrester (1918). After him are Donna Tartt (1963), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Lunalilo (1835), Roy Ayers (1940), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), and Kenneth Anger (1927).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Jim Thorpe ranks 81. Before him are Ken Myers (1896), Dean Smith (1932), Robert Taylor (1948), John Paine (1870), Bill Miller (1912), and Larry Black (1951). After him are Eddie Tolan (1908), Frank Waller (1884), Frank Loomis (1896), Maurice Greene (1974), John Carlos (1945), and Edward Marsh (1874).

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