SOCCER PLAYER

Dixie Dean

1907 - 1980

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William Ralph "Dixie" Dean (22 January 1907 – 1 March 1980) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Dean holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season in top-flight English football, with 60. He is regarded as one of the greatest centre-forwards of all time and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.Born in Birkenhead, he began his career at his hometown club Tranmere Rovers before moving on to Everton, the club he had supported as a child. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dixie Dean has received more than 1,302,878 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Dixie Dean is the 787th most popular soccer player (down from 652nd in 2019), the 1,666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,718th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dixie Deans by language

Over the past year Dixie Dean has had the most page views in the with 290,695 views, followed by Spanish (74,380), and French (11,916). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (729.21%), Malagasy (115.79%), and Catalan (97.18%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Dixie Dean ranks 787 out of 21,273. Before him are Luis Artime, Gian Piero Gasperini, Dirk Kuyt, Karol Dobiaš, Alejandro Scopelli, and Rafael van der Vaart. After him are Kazuhisa Kono, Klaus Allofs, Luis Cubilla, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Masanobu Izumi, and Ignacio Zoco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Dixie Dean ranks 122. Before him are Rudolf Peierls, Pierre Pflimlin, George de Mestral, Sabahattin Ali, Roger Peyrefitte, and Marcel Bezençon. After him are Heinz Brandt, Bruno Munari, Yves Allégret, William Steig, August Eigruber, and Enrique Líster. Among people deceased in 1980, Dixie Dean ranks 91. Before him are Zygmunt Berling, Tadao Takayama, Ľudovít Fulla, Héctor José Cámpora, Bert Kaempfert, and Valko Chervenkov. After him are Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Rolf Nevanlinna, Alexander Mach, Mohammed Rafi, Sergey Taboritsky, and Gabriel González Videla.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 1,666 out of 8,785. Before him are William Hamilton (1730), Greer Garson (1904), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), John Latham (1740), Gemma Jones (1942), and Thomas Rowlandson (1756). After him are Paul Freeman (1943), John Lydon (1956), Ralph Richardson (1902), Eric Campbell (1880), David Trimble (1944), and David A. Stewart (1952).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 39. Before him are Michael Owen (1979), Roger Byrne (1929), Herbert Kilpin (1870), Erling Braut Håland (2000), Harry Kane (1993), and Alf Ramsey (1920). After him are Bill Foulkes (1932), Ian Callaghan (1942), Fergus Suter (1857), Terry Venables (1943), Herbert Chapman (1878), and Billy Wright (1924).

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