1977 - Today
Benedict Saul McCarthy (born 12 November 1977) is a South African football coach, former player and rapper who is a first-team coach at Manchester United. He previously worked as head coach of South African Premier Division team AmaZulu.A former forward, McCarthy is the South Africa national team's all-time top scorer with 31 goals. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benni McCarthy has received more than 1,915,671 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Benni McCarthy is the 4,868th most popular soccer player (down from 4,495th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 160th in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Benni McCarthy ranks 4,868 out of 16,880. Before him are Alex Teixeira, Curtis Jones, Roberto López Ufarte, Lucas Ocampos, Olaf Marschall, and Alex Manninger. After him are Lincoln, Benoît Assou-Ekotto, Javier Guzmán, Gerry Byrne, Mikel Alonso, and Aruna Dindane.
1990 - Present
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 4,862
2001 - Present
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 4,863
1958 - Present
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 4,864
1994 - Present
HPI: 40.24
Rank: 4,865
1966 - Present
HPI: 40.24
Rank: 4,866
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 4,867
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 4,868
1979 - Present
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 4,869
1984 - Present
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 4,870
1945 - 2014
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 4,871
1938 - 2015
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 4,872
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 4,873
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.21
Rank: 4,874
Among people born in 1977, Benni McCarthy ranks 242. Before him are Jessica Meir, Marco Storari, Iva Majoli, Elisa, Theodoros Papaloukas, and Alex Manninger. After him are Narain Karthikeyan, Danielle Harris, Devon, Cyril Abiteboul, Kadri Simson, and Tomm Moore.
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.35
Rank: 236
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.30
Rank: 237
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.28
Rank: 238
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.26
Rank: 239
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 240
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 241
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 242
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.18
Rank: 243
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.18
Rank: 244
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 245
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.12
Rank: 246
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.09
Rank: 247
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.03
Rank: 248
Among people born in South Africa, Benni McCarthy ranks 182 out of 374. Before him are Austin Stevens (1950), Mike Melvill (1940), David Benatar (1966), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Govan Mbeki (1910), and Richard Goldstone (1938). After him are Desiré Wilson (1953), Lawrence Stevens (1913), Clarence Walker (1898), Athol Fugard (1932), Bessie Head (1937), and Neville Lederle (1938).
1950 - Present
HPI: 40.64
Rank: 176
1940 - Present
HPI: 40.64
Rank: 177
1966 - Present
HPI: 40.55
Rank: 178
1918 - 2011
HPI: 40.54
Rank: 179
1910 - 2001
HPI: 40.40
Rank: 180
1938 - Present
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 181
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 182
1953 - Present
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 183
1913 - 1989
HPI: 39.62
Rank: 184
1898 - 1957
HPI: 39.52
Rank: 185
1932 - Present
HPI: 39.52
Rank: 186
1937 - 1986
HPI: 39.35
Rank: 187
1938 - 2019
HPI: 39.21
Rank: 188
Among soccer players born in South Africa, Benni McCarthy ranks 4. Before him are Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), Gordon Hodgson (1904), and Dimas (1969). After him are Siphiwe Tshabalala (1984), Steven Pienaar (1982), Phil Masinga (1969), Mark González (1984), Hans Vonk (1970), Lucas Radebe (1969), Matthew Booth (1977), and Aaron Mokoena (1980).
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 1
1904 - 1951
HPI: 41.16
Rank: 2
1969 - Present
HPI: 40.84
Rank: 3
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 4
1984 - Present
HPI: 39.20
Rank: 5
1982 - Present
HPI: 39.08
Rank: 6
1969 - 2019
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 7
1984 - Present
HPI: 37.85
Rank: 8
1970 - Present
HPI: 35.81
Rank: 9
1969 - Present
HPI: 35.47
Rank: 10
1977 - Present
HPI: 34.78
Rank: 11
1980 - Present
HPI: 34.27
Rank: 12