1907 - 1980
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 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Dixie Dean is the 652nd most popular soccer player (down from 627th in 2019), the 1,723rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,605th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Dixie Dean ranks 652 out of 16,880. Before him are Phil Jones, Geoff Hurst, Santos Iriarte, Amadeo Carrizo, Brian Laudrup, and Hans Schäfer. After him are Marco Reus, Marco Tardelli, Míchel, Aad de Mos, Karl Rappan, and Kikuzo Kisaka.
1992 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 646
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 647
1902 - 1968
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 648
1926 - 2020
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 649
1969 - Present
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 650
1927 - 2017
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 651
1907 - 1980
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 652
1989 - Present
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 653
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 654
1963 - Present
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 655
1947 - Present
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 656
1905 - 1996
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 657
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 658
Among people born in 1907, Dixie Dean ranks 120. Before him are Takeo Miki, Enrique Líster, Ayub Khan, Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Max Pauly, and Pierre Pflimlin. After him are August Eigruber, Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Lev Oborin, Bo Gu, Yves Allégret, and Viktoria Brezhneva. Among people deceased in 1980, Dixie Dean ranks 93. Before him are Valko Chervenkov, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Tadao Takayama, Alexander Mach, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Lil Dagover. After him are Marie Under, Zygmunt Berling, Alf Sjöberg, Gabriel González Videla, Rosa Albach-Retty, and William Tolbert.
1907 - 1988
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 114
1907 - 1994
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 115
1907 - 1974
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 116
1907 - 1946
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 117
1907 - 1946
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 118
1907 - 2000
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 119
1907 - 1980
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 120
1907 - 1947
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 121
1907 - 1951
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 122
1907 - 1974
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 123
1907 - 1946
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 124
1907 - 1987
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 125
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 126
1900 - 1980
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 87
1905 - 1980
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 88
1904 - 1980
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 89
1902 - 1980
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 90
1905 - 1980
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 91
1887 - 1980
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 92
1907 - 1980
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 93
1883 - 1980
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 94
1896 - 1980
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 95
1903 - 1980
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 96
1898 - 1980
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 97
1874 - 1980
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 98
1913 - 1980
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 99
Among people born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 1,723 out of 7,765. Before him are James Finlayson (1887), Richard Aldington (1892), Peter Vaughan (1923), Marie Stopes (1880), Robert Morrison (1782), and J. Lee Thompson (1914). After him are Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), Rick Parfitt (1948), John Watson (1946), Paul Gascoigne (1967), Nell Gwyn (1650), and John Hannah (1962).
1887 - 1953
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,717
1892 - 1962
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,718
1923 - 2016
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,719
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,720
1782 - 1834
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 1,721
1914 - 2002
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 1,722
1907 - 1980
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 1,723
1768 - 1840
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 1,724
1948 - 2016
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 1,725
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 1,726
1967 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 1,727
1650 - 1687
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 1,728
1962 - Present
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 1,729
Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 36. Before him are Ally McCoist (1962), Roger Hunt (1938), Paul Scholes (1974), Michael Owen (1979), Phil Jones (1992), and Geoff Hurst (1941). After him are Paul Gascoigne (1967), Bill Foulkes (1932), Alf Ramsey (1920), Ian Callaghan (1942), Jack Charlton (1935), and Erling Braut Håland (2000).
1962 - Present
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 30
1938 - 2021
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 31
1974 - Present
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 32
1979 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 33
1992 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 34
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 35
1907 - 1980
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 36
1967 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 37
1932 - 2013
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 38
1920 - 1999
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 39
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 40
1935 - 2020
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 41
2000 - Present
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 42