1940 - 2019
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.
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Among soccer players, Billy McNeill ranks 3,171 out of 16,880. Before 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.
1923 - 1994
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 3,165
1986 - Present
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 3,166
1920 - 1993
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 3,167
1942 - 2018
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 3,168
1940 - 1979
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 3,169
1987 - Present
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 3,170
1940 - 2019
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 3,171
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 3,172
1969 - Present
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 3,173
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 3,174
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 3,175
1948 - Present
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 3,176
1924 - 1997
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 3,177
Among people born in 1940, Billy McNeill ranks 423. Before 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 368. Before 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.
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 417
1940 - 2022
HPI: 44.59
Rank: 418
1940 - 2007
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 419
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 420
1940 - 1979
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 421
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 422
1940 - 2019
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 423
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 424
1940 - 2012
HPI: 44.48
Rank: 425
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.48
Rank: 426
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.42
Rank: 427
1940 - Present
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 428
1940 - 2001
HPI: 44.31
Rank: 429
1948 - 2019
HPI: 44.82
Rank: 362
1929 - 2019
HPI: 44.80
Rank: 363
1934 - 2019
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 364
1937 - 2019
HPI: 44.72
Rank: 365
1961 - 2019
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 366
1931 - 2019
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 367
1940 - 2019
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 368
1935 - 2019
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 369
1939 - 2019
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 370
1939 - 2019
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 371
1937 - 2019
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 372
1943 - 2019
HPI: 44.17
Rank: 373
1953 - 2019
HPI: 44.13
Rank: 374
Among people born in United Kingdom, Billy McNeill ranks 4,045 out of 7,765. Before 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).
360 - 432
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 4,039
1863 - 1942
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 4,040
1913 - 2012
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 4,041
1944 - 2021
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 4,042
1933 - 2009
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 4,043
1786 - 1859
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 4,044
1940 - 2019
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 4,045
1862 - 1952
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 4,046
1035 - 1072
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 4,047
1946 - Present
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 4,048
1948 - Present
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 4,049
1892 - 1988
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 4,050
1975 - Present
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 4,051
Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Billy McNeill ranks 143. Before 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).
1975 - Present
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 137
1990 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 138
1989 - Present
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 139
1910 - 1967
HPI: 44.59
Rank: 140
1863 - 1942
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 141
1944 - 2021
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 142
1940 - 2019
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 143
1942 - Present
HPI: 44.46
Rank: 144
1962 - Present
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 145
1921 - 1991
HPI: 44.38
Rank: 146
2000 - Present
HPI: 44.17
Rank: 147
1944 - 2006
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 148
1907 - 1987
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 149