1933 - 1983
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡaˈʁĩʃɐ], "little bird"), was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest dribblers of all time, and by some, the greatest dribbler ever. Garrincha is extremely popular in Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garrincha has received more than 1,399,248 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Garrincha is the 4th most popular soccer player (up from 6th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Brazil (up from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.
Garrincha is most famous for being a Brazilian soccer player who played for the Brazil national team in the 1958 and 1962 World Cups.
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Among soccer players, Garrincha ranks 4 out of 16,923. Before him are Pelé, Johan Cruyff, and Ferenc Puskás. After him are Eusébio, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Diego Maradona, Lev Yashin, Giuseppe Meazza, and Zinedine Zidane.
1940 - Present
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 1
1947 - 2016
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 2
1927 - 2006
HPI: 83.13
Rank: 3
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 4
1942 - 2014
HPI: 82.00
Rank: 5
1926 - 2014
HPI: 81.99
Rank: 6
1945 - Present
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 7
1945 - Present
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 8
1960 - 2020
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 9
1929 - 1990
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 10
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 11
1972 - Present
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1933, Garrincha ranks 3. Before him are Roman Polanski and Akihito. After him are Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Yoko Ono, Michael Caine, Montserrat Caballé, James Brown, Dalida, Nina Simone, and Claudio Abbado. Among people deceased in 1983, Garrincha ranks 2. Before him is Joan Miró. After him are Louis de Funès, Luis Buñuel, Leopold III of Belgium, Umberto II of Italy, Hergé, Idris of Libya, Tennessee Williams, Felix Bloch, Buckminster Fuller, and David Niven.
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 1
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 2
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 3
1933 - 2019
HPI: 82.64
Rank: 4
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 5
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 6
1933 - Present
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 7
1933 - 2018
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 8
1933 - 2006
HPI: 79.61
Rank: 9
1933 - 1987
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 10
1933 - 2003
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 11
1933 - 2014
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 12
1893 - 1983
HPI: 83.17
Rank: 1
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 2
1914 - 1983
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 3
1900 - 1983
HPI: 80.29
Rank: 4
1901 - 1983
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 5
1904 - 1983
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 6
1907 - 1983
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 9
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 10
1895 - 1983
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 11
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 12
Among people born in Brazil, Garrincha ranks 2 out of 1,947. Before him are Pelé (1940). After him are Paulo Coelho (1947), Oscar Niemeyer (1907), Ayrton Senna (1960), Jair Bolsonaro (1955), Dilma Rousseff (1947), Zico (1953), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945), Michel Temer (1940), Didi (1928), and Pedro II of Brazil (1825).
1940 - Present
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 1
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 3
1907 - 2012
HPI: 79.91
Rank: 4
1960 - 1994
HPI: 79.28
Rank: 5
1955 - Present
HPI: 78.20
Rank: 6
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 7
1953 - Present
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 8
1945 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 10
1928 - 2001
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 11
1825 - 1891
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 12
Among soccer players born in Brazil, Garrincha ranks 2. Before him are Pelé (1940). After him are Zico (1953), Didi (1928), Mário Zagallo (1931), Sócrates (1954), Ronaldo (1976), Vavá (1934), Rivellino (1946), Carlos Alberto Torres (1944), Ronaldinho (1980), and Nílton Santos (1925).
1940 - Present
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 1
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 2
1953 - Present
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 3
1928 - 2001
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 5
1954 - 2011
HPI: 75.58
Rank: 6
1976 - Present
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 7
1934 - 2002
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 8
1946 - Present
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 9
1944 - 2016
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 10
1980 - Present
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 11
1925 - 2013
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 12