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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 751,391 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Billy McNeill is the 3,171st most popular soccer player (down from 2,872nd in 2019), the 4,045th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,669th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

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  • 44.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Billy McNeill ranks 3,171 out of 16,880Before him are Karl-Heinz Metzner, Jackson Martínez, Paul Mebus, Philippe Gondet, Ermindo Onega, and Mauro Zárate. After him are René Desaeyere, Ilie Dumitrescu, Tengiz Sulakvelidze, Katsuyuki Kawachi, Ever Almeida, and Antoine Cuissard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Billy McNeill ranks 423Before him are John Esposito, Howard Hesseman, Bohdan Paczyński, Alfonso Guerra, Ermindo Onega, and Austin Pendleton. After him are Roy Ayers, Jerzy Kulej, Steve Swallow, Taylor Wang, Walter Alvarez, and Marita Petersen. Among people deceased in 2019, Billy McNeill ranks 368Before him are Enriqueta Basilio, Raymond Bellot, Inger Berggren, Klara Guseva, Daniel Johnston, and Dimitar Dobrev. After him are Frank Robinson, Josef Feistmantl, Lol Mahamat Choua, Claes Andersson, Zvonimir Vujin, and Walter Lübcke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Billy McNeill ranks 4,045 out of 7,765Before him are Ninian (360), John Goodall (1863), Bernard Lovell (1913), Terry Cooper (1944), Peter Arundell (1933), and Thomas Nuttall (1786). After him are Billy Hughes (1862), Hereward the Wake (1035), Jack Straw (1946), Ian McElhinney (1948), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), and James D'Arcy (1975).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Billy McNeill ranks 143Before him are Robbie Fowler (1975), Kyle Walker (1990), Theo Walcott (1989), Ramón Zabalo (1910), John Goodall (1863), and Terry Cooper (1944). After him are Mike Summerbee (1942), Vivian Campbell (1962), Stan Mortensen (1921), Jadon Sancho (2000), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), and Alexander Wood (1907).