SOCCER PLAYER

Billy McNeill

1940 - 2019

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William McNeill (2 March 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a Scottish football player and manager. He had a long association with Celtic, spanning more than sixty years as a player, manager and club ambassador. McNeill captained Celtic's 'Lisbon Lions' to their European Cup victory in 1967 and later spent two spells as the club's manager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billy McNeill has received more than 790,308 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Billy McNeill is the 2,676th most popular soccer player (up from 3,170th in 2019), the 3,444th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,037th in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Billy McNeill ranks 2,676 out of 21,273. Before him are Emmanuel Amunike, Myung Rye-hyun, Theofanis Gekas, Wissam Ben Yedder, Georges Beaucourt, and Ivan Gudelj. After him are Ramón Guzmán, Alberto Chividini, Antonio Betancort, Jurandir de Freitas, José Vicente, and Víctor Benítez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Billy McNeill ranks 359. Before him are Gary Gilmore, Vicente Miera, Michael Sarrazin, Adam Przeworski, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, and Ole Ernst. After him are Jurandir de Freitas, Tilo Prückner, Imre Komora, Zvonko Bego, Sue Grafton, and Mirjam Pressler. Among people deceased in 2019, Billy McNeill ranks 314. Before him are Patricia Bath, Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Egon Zimmermann, Med Hondo, Larry Cohen, and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio. After him are Ayşen Gruda, Ron Leibman, Mirjam Pressler, Yao Lee, Barbara Hammer, and Dinko Dermendzhiev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Billy McNeill ranks 3,444 out of 8,785. Before him are John Alcott (1930), Vivian Fuchs (1908), Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745), Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768), Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (1964), and Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880). After him are John Byng (1704), Boston Corbett (1832), Jill Esmond (1908), Jane Lapotaire (1944), Kyle Walker (1990), and Henry de Bracton (1210).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Billy McNeill ranks 113. Before him are Gary Speed (1969), Joe Fagan (1921), Vic Buckingham (1915), Ramón Zabalo (1910), Peter Bonetti (1941), and Simone Perrotta (1977). After him are Kyle Walker (1990), Graham Potter (1975), George Cohen (1939), Joe Cole (1981), Giuseppe Wilson (1945), and Norman Hunter (1943).

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