SOCCER PLAYER

Bob Paisley

1919 - 1996

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Robert Paisley (23 January 1919 – 14 February 1996) was an English professional football manager and player who played as a wing-half. He spent almost 50 years with Liverpool and is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. Reluctantly taking the job in 1974, he built on the foundations laid by his predecessor Bill Shankly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Paisley has received more than 1,802,826 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Bob Paisley is the 402nd most popular soccer player (down from 308th in 2019), the 1,121st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,165th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bob Paisleys by language

Over the past year Bob Paisley has had the most page views in the with 251,863 views, followed by Spanish (15,887), and Portuguese (12,371). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (356.57%), Simple English (355.10%), and Malagasy (88.81%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bob Paisley ranks 402 out of 21,273. Before him are Shigeo Sugimoto, Edinson Cavani, Pedro Petrone, Wim Suurbier, Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, and Yoshio Furukawa. After him are Ernst Wilimowski, Ottmar Walter, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Eden Hazard, Gyula Zsengellér, and Petar Zhekov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Bob Paisley ranks 66. Before him are René Barrientos, Joe Weider, Ian Smith, Licio Gelli, Lauri Törni, and Wolfgang Wagner. After him are Mieczysław Weinberg, José Villalonga, Maurice Herzog, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, and Pierre Soulages. Among people deceased in 1996, Bob Paisley ranks 69. Before him are Hans Blumenberg, Piet Hein, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Leonor Fini, Virginia Henderson, and Spiro Agnew. After him are Toru Takemitsu, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Mieczysław Weinberg, Michel Debré, Pavel Sudoplatov, and Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bob Paisley ranks 1,121 out of 8,785. Before him are Colin McRae (1968), Hugh Griffith (1912), Henry Royce (1863), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Charles Spearman (1863), and Samuel Bellamy (1689). After him are Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Taron Egerton (1989), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Flinders Petrie (1853), Leopold Stokowski (1882), and John Schlesinger (1926).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Bob Paisley ranks 18. Before him are Gary Lineker (1960), Duncan Edwards (1936), Brian Clough (1935), Phil Neville (1977), Ryan Giggs (1973), and Ian Rush (1961). After him are Steven Gerrard (1980), John Charles (1931), Ally McCoist (1962), John Toshack (1949), Frank Lampard (1978), and Alan Shearer (1970).

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