1919 - 1996
Robert Paisley OBE (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, due to his achievements with the club, as one of the greatest British 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 1,384,894 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Bob Paisley is the 308th most popular soccer player (down from 135th in 2019), the 1,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 734th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Bob Paisley ranks 308 out of 16,923. Before him are Fabien Barthez, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Obdulio Varela, Dragoslav Šekularac, Hisao Kami, and Waichiro Omura. After him are Michel Preud'homme, Vujadin Boškov, Valentino Mazzola, Tomohiko Ikoma, Kunitaka Sueoka, and Kenji Tochio.
1971 - Present
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 302
1943 - 2019
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 303
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 304
1937 - 2019
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 305
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 306
1933 - 2003
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 307
1919 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 308
1959 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 309
1931 - 2014
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 310
1919 - 1949
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 311
1932 - 2009
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 312
1917 - 1998
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 313
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 314
Among people born in 1919, Bob Paisley ranks 54. Before him are Martin Balsam, Liberace, Lauri Törni, Merce Cunningham, Margaret Burbidge, and Hermine Braunsteiner. After him are Valentino Mazzola, Gillo Pontecorvo, César Manrique, Ashraf Pahlavi, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Mohamed Boudiaf. Among people deceased in 1996, Bob Paisley ranks 59. Before him are Ernesto Geisel, Shūsaku Endō, George Davis Snell, Max Manus, Frida Boccara, and Obdulio Varela. After him are Alain Poher, Lars Ahlfors, Saul Bass, Toru Takemitsu, Koichi Oita, and Piet Hein.
1919 - 1996
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 48
1919 - 1987
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 49
1919 - 1965
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 50
1919 - 2009
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 51
1919 - 2020
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 52
1919 - 1999
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 53
1919 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 54
1919 - 1949
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 55
1919 - 2006
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 56
1919 - 1992
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 57
1919 - 2016
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 58
1919 - 1996
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 59
1919 - 1992
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 60
1907 - 1996
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 53
1923 - 1996
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 54
1903 - 1996
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 55
1914 - 1996
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 56
1940 - 1996
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 57
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 58
1919 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 59
1909 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 60
1907 - 1996
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 61
1920 - 1996
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 62
1930 - 1996
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 63
1914 - 1996
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 64
1905 - 1996
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 65
Among people born in United Kingdom, Bob Paisley ranks 1,075 out of 6,924. Before him are Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517), Colin Wilson (1931), Wallace Hartley (1878), John Harvard (1607), Ernest Jones (1879), and Albert Pierrepoint (1905). After him are Nicko McBrain (1952), Sam Mendes (1965), Simon Pegg (1970), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), Elizabeth Tudor (1492), and Joan Plowright (1929).
1517 - 1559
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 1,069
1931 - 2013
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 1,070
1878 - 1912
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 1,071
1607 - 1638
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 1,072
1879 - 1958
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 1,073
1905 - 1992
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 1,074
1919 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 1,075
1952 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 1,076
1965 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 1,077
1970 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 1,078
1849 - 1895
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 1,079
1492 - 1495
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 1,080
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 1,081
Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Bob Paisley ranks 14. Before him are Kenny Dalglish (1951), Bobby Moore (1941), Duncan Edwards (1936), Peter Shilton (1949), Kevin Keegan (1951), and Brian Clough (1935). After him are Frank Lampard (1978), Ryan Giggs (1973), Steven Gerrard (1980), John Charles (1931), Harry Gregg (1932), and Gary Lineker (1960).
1951 - Present
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 8
1941 - 1993
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 9
1936 - 1958
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 10
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 11
1951 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 12
1935 - 2004
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 13
1919 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 14
1978 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 15
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 16
1980 - Present
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 17
1931 - 2004
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 18
1932 - 2020
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 19
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 20