Texas university alumni the world is most curious about

Our knowledge extends again to July 2015 and is sorted by common day by day visits to every particular person’s Wikipedia web page. We didn’t restrict our evaluation to solely alumni — a person solely wanted to attend the college to be thought-about.

Our map above reveals the most visited alumni pages from each Texas faculty and university. The higher ranks span politicians, famend actors, entrepreneurs and professional athletes.

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But the Texas alum that individuals are most curious about is, in reality, grownup movie star and University of Texas at El Paso graduate Mia Khalifa. She averages 16,068 day by day web page visits on Wikipedia, 5,250 greater than the runner-up and University of Texas at Austin graduate Matthew McConaughey.

Other prime former Texas faculty and university college students embody Patrick Swayze, Kourtney Kardashian and WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker.

The University of Texas at San Antonio has an attendee in the prime 10 with Travis Scott, who ranks seventh general with 8,068 day by day visits to his Wikipedia web page and greater than 26.3 million visits since July 2015. Scott dropped out of UTSA at the age of 19 to pursue music after graduating from highschool at the age of 17.

San Antonio-area faculty alumni additionally embody President Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas State University), U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (St. Mary’s University), and actress Jaclyn Smith (Trinity University).

For every alum in our evaluation, there was at all times a single day that stood above the relaxation when it comes to site visitors to their Wikipedia web page. No Texas alum exemplifies this higher than rock singer Meat Loaf, who since 2015 has averaged solely 3,610 day by day visits to his Wikipedia web page. But on January 21, his web page was loaded 2,239,371 occasions. Why? That was the day the singer died.

Scrolling via the pages of the above desk gives perception into what does and doesn’t spark curiosity in society’s collective consciousness. For instance, Travis Scott’s peak day on Wikipedia did not happen in the days following the Nov. 5, 2021, Astroworld Festival incident, during which 10 folks and an unborn youngster misplaced their lives. In the following week, his web page visits by no means exceeded 331,225. His web page peaked on Feb. 5, 2018, when the rapper had his first youngster with Kylie Jenner and had an unrelated riot incitement case thrown out. His web page acquired 629,091 visits that day.

We’ve supplied a Google News link for every of the prime 500 most searched alumni for the day that their respective Wikipedia pages noticed the most site visitors.