SOCCER PLAYER

Bill McGarry

1927 - 2005

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William Harry McGarry (10 June 1927 – 15 March 2005) was an England international association footballer and manager who spent 40 years in the professional game. He had a reputation for toughness, both as a player and as a manager. A right-half as a player, he joined Port Vale following the end of World War II and spent the next six years with the club. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill McGarry has received more than 76,273 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bill McGarry is the 6,000th most popular soccer player (down from 5,863rd in 2019), the 5,526th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,531st in 2019) and the 299th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 76k

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  • 41.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bill McGarry ranks 6,000 out of 21,273Before him are Yasuharu Kurata, Milko Djurovski, Sebastián Coates, Sergiño Dest, Paul Dummett, and Silvio Pietroboni. After him are Juan José Muñante, Jasem Yaqoub, Fritz Walter, Pavlo Yakovenko, Peter Houtman, and Nacerdine Drid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Bill McGarry ranks 454Before him are Porter Wagoner, Alan Geldard, Cleo Laine, Hank Ballard, Beatrice Ohanessian, and Sahana Pradhan. After him are Ann Gillis, Harry Gallatin, Guy Mitchell, Henri Dirickx, Prem Nazir, and Nancy Dupree. Among people deceased in 2005, Bill McGarry ranks 346Before him are Charles Rocket, Ruth Warrick, R. L. Burnside, Bob Denver, William Hootkins, and Gaylord Nelson. After him are Christopher Fry, Michael Park, Kazimierz Lipień, Eugene J. Martin, Lucky Thompson, and André Testut.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bill McGarry ranks 5,526 out of 8,785Before him are Cuth Harrison (1906), Richard Crashaw (1612), Peter Mandelson (1953), Iwan Rheon (1985), Paul Dummett (1991), and Michael Rosen (1946). After him are David Harewood (1965), Henry Green (1905), Daniel Sharman (1986), J. I. Packer (1926), Alan Mowbray (1896), and Alexander Wood (1907).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Bill McGarry ranks 299Before him are Wilf Mannion (1918), Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981), Gerry Byrne (1938), Luke Shaw (1995), John Wark (1957), and Paul Dummett (1991). After him are Alexander Wood (1907), Jim Leighton (1958), Tony Waiters (1937), George Moorhouse (1901), Johnny Douglas (1882), and Peter Broadbent (1933).