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Ferenc Bene

1944 - 2006

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Ferenc Bene (17 December 1944 – 27 February 2006) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a striker for Újpesti Dózsa and Hungary. He was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, in which he was the top scorer of the tournament with 12 goals in just 5 matches. He is the sixth most prolific goalscorer in total matches in recorded history according to RSSSF with over 1425 goals scored in over 1480 matches, which results in a goal-per-match ratio of almost one. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferenc Bene has received more than 140,596 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ferenc Bene is the 326th most popular soccer player (up from 542nd in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 194th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ferenc Bene ranks 326 out of 16,880. Before him are Dettmar Cramer, Takashi Takabayashi, Kazimierz Deyna, Yoshimatsu Oyama, Mauro Ramos, and Antoni Ramallets. After him are Ryuzo Shimizu, Henrik Larsson, Thomas Müller, Takashi Kasahara, Yasukazu Tanaka, and Ryan Giggs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ferenc Bene ranks 126. Before him are Christian Boltanski, Jan-Michael Vincent, Albert Hammond, John Densmore, Chris Patten, and Chico Mendes. After him are Sam Elliott, Jan Guillou, Peter Lindbergh, Carlos Pace, Gianfranco Ferré, and John Entwistle. Among people deceased in 2006, Ferenc Bene ranks 75. Before him are Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Rudolf Vrba, Allen Carr, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, María Capovilla, and Aaron Spelling. After him are Ryutaro Hashimoto, David Bronstein, Paul Marcinkus, Billy Preston, Telê Santana, and Sven Nykvist.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ferenc Bene ranks 162 out of 866. Before him are Gyula Horn (1932), Árpád Göncz (1922), Mihály Zichy (1827), László Csatáry (1915), Gyula Zsengellér (1915), and Géza Lakatos (1890). After him are István Sándorfi (1948), Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870), Péter Nádas (1942), Béla Tarr (1955), Constance of Hungary (1180), and Ingenuus (200).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Ferenc Bene ranks 12. Before him are Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Zoltán Czibor (1929), József Bozsik (1925), Gyula Grosics (1926), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), and Gyula Zsengellér (1915). After him are Gyula Lóránt (1923), György Sárosi (1912), Ferenc Deák (1922), Máté Fenyvesi (1933), Lajos Tichy (1935), and Mihály Lantos (1928).

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