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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 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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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Dixie Dean ranks 652 out of 16,880Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Dixie Dean ranks 120Before 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 93Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 1,723 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 36Before 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).