SOCCER PLAYER

Billy Meredith

1874 - 1958

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William Henry Meredith (30 July 1874 – 19 April 1958) was a Welsh professional footballer. He was considered one of the early superstars of football due to his performances, notably for Manchester City and Manchester United. He won each domestic trophy in the English football league and gained 48 caps for Wales, for whom he scored eleven goals and won two British Home Championship titles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billy Meredith has received more than 263,676 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Billy Meredith is the 1,696th most popular soccer player (down from 1,500th in 2019), the 2,621st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,757th in 2019) and the 77th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Billy Merediths by language

Over the past year Billy Meredith has had the most page views in the with 38,052 views, followed by Russian (4,398), and French (3,464). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (193.05%), Uzbek (69.38%), and Romanian (66.02%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Billy Meredith ranks 1,696 out of 21,273. Before him are Theo Hernandez, Fabio Cudicini, Kees Kist, Bernardo Silva, Aldo Boffi, and Otto Glória. After him are Steve Perryman, Étienne Mattler, Ndaye Mulamba, Homare Sawa, Vincent Kompany, and Vladica Kovačević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Billy Meredith ranks 131. Before him are Francis Lane, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Nasrullah Khan, Charles Fort, Władysław Grabski, and Dimitrios Golemis. After him are Theodore Lyman IV, Frederic Clements, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Fejzi Alizoti, Albert Capellani, and Henri Deloge. Among people deceased in 1958, Billy Meredith ranks 100. Before him are Geoff Bent, Aleksander Klumberg, Nereu Ramos, Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, and Karl Arnold. After him are Armas Järnefelt, Otto Witte, Ferdinand Bruckner, Herbert Brenon, Marcel Cachin, and László Hudec.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Billy Meredith ranks 2,621 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Arnold (1795), C. P. Snow (1905), Bill Ivy (1942), Quentin Blake (1932), Kit Harington (1986), and Peggy Ashcroft (1907). After him are William Robertson Smith (1846), Steve Perryman (1951), Patrick Manson (1844), Thomas Telford (1757), John Turner (1929), and Cedric Hardwicke (1893).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Billy Meredith ranks 77. Before him are Bryan Robson (1957), Tom Finney (1922), Jack Greenwell (1884), Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847), Gary Neville (1975), and Ashley Cole (1980). After him are Steve Perryman (1951), Sam Allardyce (1954), Ian Wright (1963), Johnny Haynes (1934), Ron Atkinson (1939), and Harry Maguire (1993).

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