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Lam Jones

1958 - 2019

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John Wesley "Lam" Jones (April 4, 1958 – March 15, 2019) was an American athlete who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 meter relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a wide receiver for the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys. Prior to that, he played college football and ran track at the University of Texas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Lam Jones is the 1,738th most popular athlete (up from 4,356th in 2024), the 9,871st most popular biography from United States (up from 17,782nd in 2019) and the 318th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lam Jones ranks 1,738 out of 6,025. Before him are P. T. Usha, Víctor Peralta, Harry Voigt, Sergio Caprari, Tiina Lillak, and Friedrich Waller. After him are Pierre Musy, Tadeusz Rut, Francisco Fernández, Charles Vinci, Raymond Flacher, and Ira Davenport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Lam Jones ranks 396. Before him are Norio Sasaki, Jürgen Hingsen, Paweł Edelman, Leslie David Baker, Alexander Tarasov, and Steve Sem-Sandberg. After him are Klaus Berggreen, Roberto López Ufarte, Robert Dill-Bundi, Fatih Birol, Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha, and Kathy Hochul. Among people deceased in 2019, Lam Jones ranks 467. Before him are Sara Danius, Juan Rodríguez, Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Bernard Tchoullouyan, and Ron Leibman. After him are Thomas Shardelow, Ivan Kizimov, Daniel Johnston, John Paul Stevens, Valerie Harper, and Brigitte Kronauer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lam Jones ranks 9,873 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Bryant (1931), Shirley Mason (1901), Cliff DeYoung (1945), Art Babbitt (1907), Leslie David Baker (1958), and Sabu (1964). After him are Christy Mathewson (1880), Joey Castillo (1966), Wes Borland (1975), Nancy Travis (1961), David Ray Griffin (1939), and Hugo Black (1886).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Lam Jones ranks 318. Before him are Willie Davenport (1943), Barney Ewell (1918), Steve Seymour (1920), Hubert Stevens (1890), Frank Greer (1879), and Paul Pilgrim (1883). After him are Charles Vinci (1933), Ira Davenport (1887), Jerome Biffle (1928), Paul Drayton (1939), Lucinda Williams (1937), and Henry Proctor (1929).

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