1987 - Today
Dries Mertens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdris ˈmɛrtə(n)s], born 6 May 1987), nicknamed Ciro, is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger for Italian club Napoli and the Belgium national team. Mertens is Napoli's all time top goalscorer.As a youth, Mertens played for Stade Leuven, Anderlecht and Gent, and made his debut on loan to Eendracht Aalst in the Belgian Third Division. In 2006, he moved to Dutch Eerste Divisie club AGOVV Apeldoorn, where he spent three years before a €600,000 move to Utrecht of the Eredivisie. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dries Mertens has received more than 2,281,775 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Dries Mertens is the 1,123rd most popular soccer player (up from 1,357th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 390th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Belgian Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Dries Mertens ranks 1,123 out of 16,923. Before him are Eusebio Tejera, Fernando Riera, Edmundo, Michele Andreolo, Marek Hamšík, and Ángel Romano. After him are José Sanfilippo, Juan Bautista Agüero, Gerhard Hanappi, Antal Szabó, Jock Stein, and Álvaro Arbeloa.
1922 - 2002
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 1,117
1920 - 2010
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 1,118
1971 - Present
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 1,119
1912 - 1981
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 1,120
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 1,121
1894 - 1972
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 1,122
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 1,123
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 1,124
1935 - 2018
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 1,125
1929 - 1980
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 1,126
1910 - 1972
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 1,127
1922 - 1985
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 1,128
1983 - Present
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 1,129
Among people born in 1987, Dries Mertens ranks 21. Before him are Lee Min-ho, Arda Turan, Sami Khedira, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Elliot Page, and Marek Hamšík. After him are David Luiz, Julian Nagelsmann, Leonardo Bonucci, Samir Nasri, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Naya Rivera.
1987 - Present
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 15
1987 - Present
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 16
1987 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 17
1987 - Present
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 18
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 19
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 20
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 21
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 22
1987 - Present
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 23
1987 - Present
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 24
1987 - Present
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 25
1987 - Present
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 26
1987 - 2020
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 27
Among people born in Belgium, Dries Mertens ranks 394 out of 899. Before him are Joseph Lebeau (1794), Peter Benoit (1834), Ferdinand de Marsin (1656), Bobbejaan Schoepen (1925), Jean Duvieusart (1900), and Raymond Braine (1907). After him are Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), Dirk Frimout (1941), Edmond Leburton (1915), Hubert Van Innis (1866), Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830), and Franky Van der Elst (1961).
1794 - 1865
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 388
1834 - 1901
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 389
1656 - 1706
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 390
1925 - 2010
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 391
1900 - 1977
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 392
1907 - 1978
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 393
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 394
1584 - 1667
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 395
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 396
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 397
1866 - 1961
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 398
1830 - 1872
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 399
1961 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 400
Among soccer players born in Belgium, Dries Mertens ranks 15. Before him are Marc Wilmots (1969), Louis Van Hege (1889), Romelu Lukaku (1993), Thibaut Courtois (1992), Jean-Marc Bosman (1964), and Raymond Braine (1907). After him are Franky Van der Elst (1961), Wilfried Van Moer (1945), Franky Vercauteren (1956), Raoul Lambert (1944), Daniel Van Buyten (1978), and Erwin Vandenbergh (1959).
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 9
1889 - 1975
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 10
1993 - Present
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 11
1992 - Present
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 12
1964 - Present
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 13
1907 - 1978
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 14
1987 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 15
1961 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 16
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 17
1956 - Present
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 18
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 19
1978 - Present
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 20
1959 - Present
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 21