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SOCCER PLAYER

Colin Bell

1946 - 2021

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Colin Bell (26 February 1946 – 5 January 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Bell, known for his thirteen-year spell at Manchester City, is regarded as one of the club's greatest-ever players, and was part of the Bell–Lee–Summerbee trio in the late 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colin Bell has received more than 699,777 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Colin Bell is the 1,424th most popular soccer player (up from 3,151st in 2019), the 2,683rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,866th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Colin Bell ranks 1,424 out of 16,880. Before him are Isabelino Gradín, Javier Hernández, Waldir Peres, Ruy Ramos, Antal Szabó, and George Knobel. After him are József Tóth, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Dani Carvajal, Wojciech Szczęsny, Masaki Yokotani, and Hakim Ziyech.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Colin Bell ranks 326. Before him are Steve Kanaly, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, Dragutin Šurbek, Farag Foda, Vladimir Solovyov, and Antonio Fargas. After him are Lesley Ann Warren, Andrew Davis, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Nicola Piovani, Martin Barre, and Colin Burgess. Among people deceased in 2021, Colin Bell ranks 358. Before him are Sanpei Shirato, Giuseppe Rotunno, Jozef Vengloš, József Csatári, John Madden, and Virgil Abloh. After him are Henry Darrow, Barry Harris, Lester Bird, Walter Taibo, Tormod Knutsen, and Johnny Pacheco.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Bell ranks 2,683 out of 7,765. Before him are Ray Davies (1944), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Hilary Mantel (1952), Gerald of Wales (1146), Daniel Jones (1881), and James Paget (1814). After him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), Joely Richardson (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), George Dawe (1781), Georgette Heyer (1902), and Joseph Grimaldi (1778).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Colin Bell ranks 64. Before him are David Seaman (1963), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Nobby Stiles (1942), Ron Flowers (1934), Jack Greenwell (1884), and William Foulke (1874). After him are Billy Meredith (1874), Gary Neville (1975), Jim Brown (1908), Tom Finney (1922), Bryan Robson (1957), and Ray Clemence (1948).

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