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 701,882 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Colin Bell is the 1,558th most popular soccer player (down from 1,424th in 2019), the 2,519th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,676th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Colin Bell ranks 1,558 out of 21,273. Before him are Horst Blankenburg, Burak Yılmaz, Juan Carlos Calvo, Árpád Weisz, Andrea Barzagli, and Juan Evaristo. After him are Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Tommy Lawrence, Amedeo Biavati, Arthur Machado, Marcos Paquetá, and Stefan Abadzhiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Colin Bell ranks 335. Before him are Eliades Ochoa, Dragutin Šurbek, Mick Ronson, Ricky Hui, Robert Urich, and Vincent Pastore. After him are Daryl Hall, Gérard Grisey, George Duke, Ricardo Maduro, Jane Asher, and Slobodan Santrač. Among people deceased in 2021, Colin Bell ranks 257. Before him are Norman Lloyd, Milkha Singh, Tahir Salahov, Jaime Lerner, Bell hooks, and James Michael Tyler. After him are Charles Konan Banny, John Magufuli, Carlos Correia, Dimitri Kitsikis, Joey Jordison, and Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Bell ranks 2,519 out of 8,785. Before him are John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845), William Cowper (1731), Matt Smith (1982), Natalie Dormer (1982), Blaze Bayley (1963), and Anna Kingsford (1846). After him are Vincent Regan (1965), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Minnie Driver (1970), Divina Galica (1944), Jane Asher (1946), and Leonard Hobhouse (1864).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Colin Bell ranks 68. Before him are Jude Bellingham (2003), Nobby Stiles (1942), Ray Clemence (1948), Geoff Bent (1932), David Seaman (1963), and Martin Peters (1943). After him are Tommy Lawrence (1940), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), Bryan Robson (1957), Tom Finney (1922), Jack Greenwell (1884), and Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847).

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