SOCCER PLAYER

Dennis Viollet

1933 - 1999

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Dennis Sydney Viollet (20 September 1933 – 6 March 1999) was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and Stoke City as well as the England national team. He was famous as one of the Busby Babes and survived the Munich air disaster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Viollet has received more than 370,561 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Dennis Viollet is the 1,147th most popular soccer player (down from 1,107th in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,327th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dennis Viollets by language

Over the past year Dennis Viollet has had the most page views in the with 52,099 views, followed by German (6,073), and Spanish (5,052). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (138.12%), Spanish (63.81%), and Southern Azerbaijani (50.32%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Dennis Viollet ranks 1,147 out of 21,273. Before him are Werner Kohlmeyer, Mario Corso, Franky Vercauteren, Jean-Pierre Adams, Marcelino Martínez, and Juan Mata. After him are John Hansen, Takeshi Natori, Bert Patenaude, Carlos Mozer, Márton Bukovi, and Ulf Kirsten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Dennis Viollet ranks 194. Before him are Josef Kadraba, Allen J. Bard, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Mark Eyskens, Jerry Buss, and Kamal Ganzouri. After him are Ilya Kabakov, Stuart Roosa, Meena Kumari, Syd Mead, Jesús Gil, and Maximilian, Margrave of Baden. Among people deceased in 1999, Dennis Viollet ranks 107. Before him are Dennis W. Sciama, Oscar Cullmann, Jean Guitton, Petr Shelokhonov, Hendrick Chin A Sen, and Dmitry Likhachov. After him are Pierre Bézier, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Morris West, Karekin I, Nahum Stelmach, and Nise da Silveira.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dennis Viollet ranks 2,123 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Fairfax (1612), Michael Bond (1926), Edmund Crouchback (1245), Liam Gallagher (1972), Samantha Eggar (1939), and Catherine Carey (1523). After him are Stephen Dillane (1957), William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Charles Boycott (1832), Anthony Asquith (1902), and John Fletcher (1579).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Dennis Viollet ranks 51. Before him are Billy Wright (1924), Peter Crouch (1981), Tommy Taylor (1932), Gordon Milne (1937), William Foulke (1874), and Glenn Hoddle (1957). After him are Steve McManaman (1972), Roger Hunt (1938), Phil Jones (1992), Rio Ferdinand (1978), Sol Campbell (1974), and John Terry (1980).

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