SOCCER PLAYER

Abe Lenstra

1920 - 1985

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Abe Minderts Lenstra (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːbə ˈmɪndərts ˈlɛnstraː]; 27 November 1920 – 2 September 1985) was a Dutch footballer and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Netherlands. He was also a Frisian legend, most notably with the club where he made his name as a football player, Heerenveen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abe Lenstra has received more than 170,435 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Abe Lenstra is the 268th most popular soccer player (up from 469th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 267th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Abe Lenstra ranks 268 out of 21,273. Before him are Helmut Haller, Osvaldo Ardiles, Gary Lineker, Quique Setién, František Plánička, and Kazimierz Deyna. After him are Fabien Barthez, Ruud Geels, Thomas Müller, Takashi Kano, Rajko Mitić, and Lee Yoo-hyung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Abe Lenstra ranks 73. Before him are Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ivan Kozhedub, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Albert Barillé, and Robert Whittaker. After him are Takashi Kano, Arthur Hailey, Alicia Alonso, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, and Maurice Bucaille. Among people deceased in 1985, Abe Lenstra ranks 35. Before him are Robert Graves, Elsa Morante, Kyu Sakamoto, Henry Hathaway, Ian Stewart, and Rodney Robert Porter. After him are Donald O. Hebb, André Kertész, The Singing Nun, Tancredo Neves, Tage Erlander, and Lina Heydrich.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Abe Lenstra ranks 186 out of 1,646. Before him are Colonel Tom Parker (1909), Bert van Marwijk (1952), Lambert of Maastricht (635), Jan Lievens (1607), John of Leiden (1509), and Princess Christina of the Netherlands (1947). After him are Ruud Geels (1948), Margaret of Bavaria (1363), Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588), Corry Brokken (1932), Eddie Van Halen (1955), and Balthasar van der Ast (1593).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Abe Lenstra ranks 16. Before him are René van de Kerkhof (1951), Piet Keizer (1943), Ruud van Nistelrooy (1976), Willy van de Kerkhof (1951), Arjen Robben (1984), and Peter Bosz (1963). After him are Ruud Geels (1948), Wesley Sneijder (1984), Wim Jansen (1946), Robin van Persie (1983), Wim Suurbier (1945), and Patrick Kluivert (1976).

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