SOCCER PLAYER

Tommy Gemmell

1943 - 2017

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Thomas Gemmell (16 October 1943 – 2 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager. Although right-footed, he excelled as a left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. Gemmell is best known as one of the Celtic side who won the 1966–67 European Cup; he scored the first Celtic goal in the final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Gemmell has received more than 394,837 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tommy Gemmell is the 4,205th most popular soccer player (up from 5,995th in 2019), the 4,475th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,579th in 2019) and the 193rd most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tommy Gemmells by language

Over the past year Tommy Gemmell has had the most page views in the with 32,823 views, followed by Italian (2,375), and Spanish (1,392). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (130.36%), Galician (126.99%), and Simple English (85.60%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Tommy Gemmell ranks 4,205 out of 21,273. Before him are Alfonso Lara, Lee Woon-jae, Alberto Mariotti, Hans Pulver, Karl Allgöwer, and Elvio Banchero. After him are Renato Zaccarelli, Tomislav Marić, Saúl Ñíguez, Koldo Aguirre, Peter Dubovský, and Horacio Muñoz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tommy Gemmell ranks 574. Before him are Morten Lauridsen, Kaoru Ikeya, Toni Basil, Mariann Fischer Boel, Stephen Greenblatt, and Silvia Cartwright. After him are Ben Cardin, Jonathan Lynn, Paul Corkum, Vern Schuppan, Sumitra Mahajan, and Roger Kolo. Among people deceased in 2017, Tommy Gemmell ranks 450. Before him are Alain Jessua, Ferry Graf, R. C. Sproul, Graham Taylor, Lee Yuan-tsu, and Kito Lorenc. After him are Paavo Lonkila, Ivan Koloff, Julia Hartwig, Charles Bradley, Shelley Berman, and James Cotton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Gemmell ranks 4,475 out of 8,785. Before him are George Galloway (1954), Monty Norman (1928), Charles Williams (1886), Andy Mackay (1946), Paul Graham (1964), and Chris Craft (1939). After him are Paul Carrack (1951), Anne-Marie Duff (1970), John Aitken (1839), Augustus John (1878), Barnes Wallis (1887), and Richard Taylor (1962).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Tommy Gemmell ranks 193. Before him are David Platt (1966), Gareth Barry (1981), Curtis Jones (2001), Phil Foden (2000), Graham Taylor (1944), and Jesse Lingard (1992). After him are Gary Cahill (1985), Morton Betts (1847), Eddie Howe (1977), Ken Armstrong (1924), Chris Hughton (1958), and Scott Carson (1985).

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