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SOCCER PLAYER

Alex James

1901 - 1953

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Alexander Wilson James (14 September 1901 – 1 June 1953) was a Scottish international footballer. He is mostly noted as a playmaking lynchpin at Arsenal with whom he won six trophies from 1930 to the 1936 season. James featured as a deep-lying creative midfielder who provided a link between defence and attack. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex James has received more than 41,060 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alex James is the 4,411th most popular soccer player (up from 4,510th in 2019), the 4,804th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,677th in 2019) and the 217th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alex James ranks 4,411 out of 16,880Before him are Gianluigi Lentini, Rodrigo, Dejan Petković, Julio Alberto Moreno, Gary Cahill, and M'Baye Niang. After him are Mikhail Ogonkov, Jules Pappaert, John Lauridsen, Flavio Roma, Aleksandar Mitrović, and Stefano Colantuono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Alex James ranks 299Before him are Pauline Starke, Gilda Gray, Nelson Eddy, Deborah Snyder, Miguel Brito, and Paulo d'Eça Leal. After him are Thomas Cooray, Eusebio Díaz, Edmund Rubbra, William Daniels, H. Bruce Humberstone, and Carmelita Geraghty. Among people deceased in 1953, Alex James ranks 166Before him are David Curtiss Munson, Albert Coates, Robert G. Vignola, Fred M. Vinson, Norman Ross, and Sophia Hayden. After him are Ethel Muckelt, Paul Niggli, Roland Young, Delfo Bellini, Thomas Thorstensen, and Richard Pearse.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex James ranks 4,804 out of 7,765Before him are Gary Cahill (1985), Henry Sweet (1845), Herbert Morrison (1888), Pete Quaife (1943), George Fenton (1950), and Nigel Short (1965). After him are Hammond Innes (1913), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), Emma Samms (1960), Ethel Muckelt (1885), Frederick E. Morgan (1894), and Doug Sampson (1957).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Alex James ranks 217Before him are Terry Paine (1939), Bart McGhee (1899), Danny Ward (1993), Luke Shaw (1995), Craig Bellamy (1979), and Gary Cahill (1985). After him are Bob Crompton (1879), Jimmy Ross (1866), Peter Taylor (1928), Alex Miller (1949), John Connelly (1938), and Nicky Butt (1975).