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Reggie Walker

1889 - 1951

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Reginald Edgar Walker (16 March 1889 in Durban – 5 November 1951) was a South African athlete and the 1908 Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reggie Walker is the 50th most popular athlete (up from 200th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 57th in 2019) and the most popular South African Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Reggie Walker ranks 50 out of 6,025. Before him are Leonidas of Rhodes, Arthur Blake, Irena Szewińska, John Woodruff, Richard Sheldon, and Fanny Blankers-Koen. After him are Lasse Virén, Charles Bennett, Ville Ritola, Yuriy Sedykh, Patrick Ryan, and Alajos Szokolyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Reggie Walker ranks 69. Before him are Richard Glücks, Eberhard von Mackensen, Zoltán Tildy, Amrit Kaur, Harry Nyquist, and Frans Masereel. After him are Stanislav Kosior, R. G. Collingwood, María Capovilla, Takeo Kurita, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, and Tom Naudé. Among people deceased in 1951, Reggie Walker ranks 48. Before him are Ernst von Weizsäcker, Serge Koussevitzky, Sadegh Hedayat, Artur Schnabel, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Robert Grant Aitken. After him are Erich Naumann, Agrippina Vaganova, Fritz Thyssen, François Georges-Picot, Émile Chartier, and Kijūrō Shidehara.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Reggie Walker ranks 44 out of 454. Before him are Jim Fouché (1898), Jan Smuts (1870), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Glynis Johns (1923), Abba Eban (1915), and George F. R. Ellis (1939). After him are André Brink (1935), Nico Diederichs (1903), Eben Dönges (1898), Basil Rathbone (1892), Tom Naudé (1889), and Louis Raymond (1895).

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Among ATHLETES In South Africa

Among athletes born in South Africa, Reggie Walker ranks 1. After him are Sid Atkinson (1901), Esther Brand (1922), Lawrence Stevens (1913), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Bevil Rudd (1894), Marjorie Clark (1909), Christian Gitsham (1888), Daphne Hasenjäger (1929), Cecil McMaster (1895), Clarence Walker (1898), and Clarence Oldfield (1899).

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