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Ali Sami Yen

1886 - 1951

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Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri (20 May 1886 – 29 July 1951) was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali Sami Yen has received more than 173,158 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ali Sami Yen is the 562nd most popular soccer player (down from 484th in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 565th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Soccer Player.

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  • 170k

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  • 55.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ali Sami Yen ranks 562 out of 16,880Before him are David Luiz, Ahmed Faras, Bixente Lizarazu, Héctor Rial, Roger Hunt, and Akira Matsunaga. After him are Bruno Metsu, Danny Blind, Toshio Miyaji, Emmanuel Adebayor, Koji Sasaki, and Ján Popluhár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Ali Sami Yen ranks 92Before him are Princess Patricia of Connaught, Olga Rozanova, Rudolf Schmidt, Olaf Stapledon, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia. After him are Taimur bin Feisal, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Hans von Obstfelder, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Salvatore Maranzano, and Helen Parkhurst. Among people deceased in 1951, Ali Sami Yen ranks 61Before him are Mikhail Borodin, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Wols, Simon Kimbangu, and Louis Jouvet. After him are Tadeusz Borowski, Géza Maróczy, Robert Grant Aitken, Liaquat Ali Khan, Maria Montez, and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Ali Sami Yen ranks 660 out of 1,301Before him are Prusias II of Bithynia (-300), Ivan Isakov (1894), Argishti II (-800), Manuel I of Trebizond (1218), Alexander of Tralles (525), and Demetrios Palaiologos (1407). After him are Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889), Mustafa Balel (1945), Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha (1713), Nausiphanes (-400), Anthemius (400), and Gainas (400).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Turkey

Among soccer players born in Turkey, Ali Sami Yen ranks 2Before him are Hakan Şükür (1971). After him are Rüştü Reçber (1973), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (1924), Arda Turan (1987), Metin Oktay (1936), Mustafa Denizli (1949), Burak Yılmaz (1985), Emre Belözoğlu (1980), Turgay Şeren (1932), Burhan Sargun (1929), and Nihat Kahveci (1979).