SOCCER PLAYER

Billy Whelan

1935 - 1958

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William Augustine Whelan (1 April 1935 – 6 February 1958), known as Billy Whelan or Liam Whelan, was an Irish footballer who played as an inside-forward. He died at the age of 22, as one of eight Manchester United players who were killed in the Munich air disaster. Whelan was born in Dublin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billy Whelan has received more than 289,649 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Billy Whelan is the 3,858th most popular soccer player (down from 3,226th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Billy Whelans by language

Over the past year Billy Whelan has had the most page views in the with 49,825 views, followed by German (3,379), and Italian (3,359). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (98.08%), Hungarian (61.92%), and Azerbaijani (45.61%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Billy Whelan ranks 3,858 out of 21,273. Before him are Demba Ba, Abdelkader Ben Bouali, Georgi Naydenov, Sergio Omar Almirón, Younis Mahmoud, and Anders Linderoth. After him are Šime Vrsaljko, Walter Kollmann, Victor Ikpeba, Andriy Pyatov, Giorgi Sichinava, and Bryan Roy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Billy Whelan ranks 416. Before him are Stanley Norman Cohen, Jimmy Armfield, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, A. J. Foyt, Jiří Čadek, and Tenley Albright. After him are Adnan Badran, Alfredo Hernández, Paul A. Rothchild, Andrew Viterbi, José Antonio Labordeta, and Waldemar Baszanowski. Among people deceased in 1958, Billy Whelan ranks 164. Before him are Jalmari Eskola, Nezihe Muhiddin, Daniel Norling, Olaf Gulbransson, David Pegg, and Walther Schreiber. After him are Francis Carco, Frank Swift, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Norman Bel Geddes, Sam Zimbalist, and George Orton.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Billy Whelan ranks 253 out of 549. Before him are Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), Tim O'Reilly (1954), Cathal Brugha (1874), Arthur Johnson (1879), William Carr (1876), and Andrew Scott (1976). After him are Owen Moore (1886), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), John Joly (1857), Eoin O'Duffy (1890), William McGonagall (1825), and Derek Daly (1953).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ireland

Among soccer players born in Ireland, Billy Whelan ranks 6. Before him are Roy Keane (1971), Robbie Keane (1980), Willoughby Hamilton (1864), Patrick O'Connell (1887), and Arthur Johnson (1879). After him are Liam Brady (1956), John O'Shea (1981), Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), Tony Dunne (1941), Denis Irwin (1965), and John McKenna (1855).

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