SOCCER PLAYER

Denis Law

1940 - Today

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Denis Law (born 24 February 1940) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward. His career as a football player began at Second Division Huddersfield Town in 1956. After four years at Huddersfield, he was signed by Manchester City for an estimated transfer fee of £55,000, which set a new British record. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denis Law has received more than 2,527,133 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Denis Law is the 96th most popular soccer player (down from 89th in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 587th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Soccer Player.

Denis Law is most famous for scoring Manchester United's winning goal in the 1968 European Cup final.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Denis Laws by language

Over the past year Denis Law has had the most page views in the with 424,297 views, followed by Italian (44,131), and Spanish (39,469). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (285.92%), Uzbek (279.43%), and Malagasy (176.90%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Denis Law ranks 96 out of 21,273. Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Andreas Brehme, Fritz Walter, Oleg Blokhin, and Dragan Džajić. After him are Daniel Passarella, Helenio Herrera, José Altafini, Bert Trautmann, Kaká, and Eric Cantona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Denis Law ranks 46. Before him are Abdurrahman Wahid, Tabaré Vázquez, Julie Christie, Paolo Borsellino, H. R. Giger, and Andrzej Żuławski. After him are Mina, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Patrick Stewart, Nancy Pelosi, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Mario Andretti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Denis Law ranks 471 out of 8,785. Before him are Julia Gillard (1961), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), Sid Vicious (1957), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Eadred (923), and Saint Walpurga (710). After him are Brook Taylor (1685), Æthelflæd (869), Saint Boniface (680), Alexander Pope (1688), Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), and G. E. Moore (1873).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Denis Law ranks 7. Before him are Bobby Charlton (1937), George Best (1946), Stanley Matthews (1915), David Beckham (1975), Gordon Banks (1937), and Bobby Moore (1941). After him are Bobby Robson (1933), Kevin Keegan (1951), Peter Shilton (1949), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Gary Lineker (1960), and Duncan Edwards (1936).

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