1944 - 2006
Ferenc Bene (17 December 1944 – 27 February 2006) was a Hungarian football player of Újpesti Dózsa, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. A striker, he was the top scorer of the tournament (12 goals in 5 matches). Bene was born in Balatonújlak. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferenc Bene has received more than 119,503 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ferenc Bene is the 327th 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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Among soccer players, Ferenc Bene ranks 327 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.
1925 - 2015
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 321
1931 - 2009
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 322
1947 - 1989
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 323
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 324
1930 - 2002
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 325
1924 - 2013
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 326
1944 - 2006
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 327
1902 - 1950
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 328
1971 - Present
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 329
1989 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 330
1918 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 331
1933 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 332
1973 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 333
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.
1944 - 2021
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 120
1944 - 2019
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 121
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 122
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 123
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 124
1944 - 1988
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 125
1944 - 2006
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 126
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 127
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 128
1944 - 2019
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 129
1944 - 1977
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 130
1944 - 2007
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 131
1944 - 2002
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 132
1926 - 2006
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 69
1924 - 2006
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 70
1934 - 2006
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 71
1916 - 2006
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 72
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 73
1923 - 2006
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 74
1944 - 2006
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 75
1937 - 2006
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 76
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 77
1922 - 2006
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 78
1946 - 2006
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 79
1931 - 2006
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 80
1922 - 2006
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 81
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).
1932 - 2013
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 156
1922 - 2015
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 157
1827 - 1906
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 158
1915 - 2013
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 159
1915 - 1999
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 160
1890 - 1967
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 161
1944 - 2006
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 162
1948 - 2007
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 163
1870 - 1955
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 164
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 165
1955 - Present
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 166
1180 - 1240
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 167
200 - 260
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 168
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).
1922 - 2002
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 6
1929 - 1997
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 7
1925 - 1978
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 8
1926 - 2014
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 9
1906 - 1986
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 10
1915 - 1999
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 11
1944 - 2006
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 12
1923 - 1981
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 13
1912 - 1993
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 14
1922 - 1998
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 15
1933 - 2022
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 16
1935 - 1999
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 17
1928 - 1989
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 18