SOCCER PLAYER

Geoff Hurst

1941 - Today

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Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he became the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, as England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoff Hurst has received more than 2,646,916 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Geoff Hurst is the 562nd most popular soccer player (up from 647th in 2019), the 1,359th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,711th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Geoff Hurst ranks 562 out of 21,273Before him are Alessandro Altobelli, Andrés Escobar, Héctor Rial, Giorgio Chinaglia, Ilija Petković, and Javier Mascherano. After him are Masao Nozawa, André Onana, Predrag Mijatović, Keylor Navas, Jiro Miyake, and Raí.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Geoff Hurst ranks 142Before him are Rached Ghannouchi, George Smith, Beau Bridges, Philippe Honoré, Sérgio Mendes, and Hisao Kami. After him are M. Stanley Whittingham, Alexander Gauland, Fabio Testi, George Lakoff, Sergei Dovlatov, and Andrei Mironov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoff Hurst ranks 1,359 out of 8,785Before him are Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Joseph Paxton (1803), Alexander McQueen (1969), Eileen Essell (1922), Gary Brooker (1945), and George Cayley (1773). After him are John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Reginald Johnston (1874), Donovan (1946), Nehemiah Grew (1641), and Kenneth E. Boulding (1910).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Geoff Hurst ranks 28Before him are John Toshack (1949), Frank Lampard (1978), Alan Shearer (1970), Gareth Bale (1989), Jack Charlton (1935), and Paul Scholes (1974). After him are Jimmy Greaves (1940), Paul Gascoigne (1967), Wayne Rooney (1985), Harry Gregg (1932), Michael Owen (1979), and Roger Byrne (1929).