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Alex McLeish

1959 - Today

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Alexander McLeish (born 21 January 1959) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. He played as a defender for Aberdeen during their 1980s glory years, making nearly 500 League appearances for the club, and won 77 caps for Scotland. McLeish started his managerial career with spells at Motherwell and Hibernian, before guiding Rangers to two championships and five cup wins in five years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex McLeish has received more than 1,040,459 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Alex McLeish is the 5,319th most popular soccer player (down from 4,851st in 2019), the 5,304th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,828th in 2019) and the 269th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alex McLeish ranks 5,319 out of 16,880Before him are Alexander Zickler, Mauro Galvão, Thomas Sørensen, Jonny Evans, Patrick Vervoort, and Nelson Gutiérrez. After him are Gary McAllister, Morgan Schneiderlin, Francileudo Santos, Corentin Martins, John Wark, and Lionel Charbonnier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Alex McLeish ranks 496Before him are Linda Emond, Fernando Álvez, Eiríkur Hauksson, Ernesto Canto, Gerard Plessers, and Eliot Spitzer. After him are Keith Cooke, Eduardo Acevedo, Lee Daniels, Patxi López, Lorella Stefanelli, and Lawrence Taylor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex McLeish ranks 5,304 out of 7,765Before him are Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954), Mary Rand (1940), Raquel Cassidy (1968), Arthur Owen (1915), Ann Sidney (1944), and Jonny Evans (1988). After him are Gary McAllister (1964), Peter Sallis (1921), Graham Poll (1963), Simon Shelton (1966), Richard Lovelace (1617), and John Wark (1957).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Alex McLeish ranks 269Before him are Bobby Smith (1933), Neville Southall (1958), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (1997), Jim Leighton (1958), Trevor Brooking (1948), and Jonny Evans (1988). After him are Gary McAllister (1964), John Wark (1957), Tom Whittaker (1898), Nathaniel Phillips (1997), Mason Greenwood (2001), and Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981).