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John Wooden

1910 - 2010

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John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Wooden is the 167th most popular basketball player (down from 117th in 2019), the 8,466th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,619th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, John Wooden ranks 167 out of 1,757. Before him are Joe Bryant, Brian Shaw, Dragan Šakota, Panagiotis Giannakis, Kiki VanDeWeghe, and Mike D'Antoni. After him are Karl-Anthony Towns, Andro Knego, Vassilis Spanoulis, Nick Young, André Buffière, and David Blatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, John Wooden ranks 320. Before him are Josef Hassmann, Robert Buron, Charles Kieffer, Nathan Jacobson, Hector Dyer, and Gabriel París Gordillo. After him are Juan Valdivieso, Carlos Cillóniz, Jane Wyatt, Laurance Rockefeller, Ariel Nogueira, and Tomás Ojeda. Among people deceased in 2010, John Wooden ranks 330. Before him are Jorge González, Roy Ward Baker, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Giovanni Pettenella, William B. Lenoir, and Joseph Serge Miot. After him are Walter Rudin, Pentti Linnosvuo, Edoardo Sanguineti, Avi Cohen, Jiří Havlis, and Raúl Belén.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Wooden ranks 8,468 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Hussey (1905), Darryl Jones (1961), Kenny Drew (1928), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Terry Kinney (1954), and Dorothy Cheney (1916). After him are Jackie DeShannon (1941), John Morton (1725), Michael Nesmith (1942), Edward O. Thorp (1932), John Bennett Perry (1941), and Jeannie Berlin (1949).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, John Wooden ranks 98. Before him are Gary Payton (1968), John Wall (1990), Doug Christie (1970), Joe Bryant (1954), Brian Shaw (1966), and Mike D'Antoni (1951). After him are Karl-Anthony Towns (1995), Nick Young (1985), David Blatt (1959), Richard Jefferson (1980), Jo Jo White (1946), and Dave Cowens (1948).

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