1922 - 2010
Gilbert Harold Merrick (26 January 1922 – 3 February 2010) was an English footballer and football manager. Considered one of the best goalkeepers in the UK during the mid-1950s, Merrick was one in a long line of great Birmingham City keepers which included the likes of Johnny Schofield and Harry Hibbs. Merrick spent his entire career at Birmingham City, playing more than 700 times between 1939 and 1960. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gil Merrick has received more than 78,806 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gil Merrick is the 5,753rd most popular soccer player (down from 5,125th in 2019), the 5,511th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,920th in 2019) and the 303rd most popular British Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Gil Merrick ranks 5,753 out of 16,880. Before him are Tuncay Şanlı, Gerson, Koen Casteels, Takumi Horiike, Darío Benedetto, and Stefano Okaka. After him are Marco van Ginkel, Bill Eckersley, Harumi Kori, Sérgio Oliveira, Kōji Nakata, and Rade Krunić.
1982 - Present
HPI: 37.98
Rank: 5,747
1997 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,748
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,749
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,750
1990 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,751
1989 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,752
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,753
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,754
1925 - 1982
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,755
1953 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,756
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,757
1979 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,758
1993 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,759
Among people born in 1922, Gil Merrick ranks 394. Before him are Herb McKenley, Kathleen Booth, Herbert Goldstein, Bill Macy, Joan Caulfield, and Bert I. Gordon. After him are Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Lamont Johnson, Frank Spellman, Norman Lear, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky. Among people deceased in 2010, Gil Merrick ranks 402. Before him are Shoya Tomizawa, Malcolm Allison, Isabella Abbott, Dorothy Janis, Zbigniew Wassermann, and Janet Simpson. After him are Dorothy Height, Adele Mara, John Dankworth, Lamont Johnson, June Havoc, and Ellis Clarke.
1922 - 2007
HPI: 38.72
Rank: 388
1922 - 2022
HPI: 38.71
Rank: 389
1922 - 2005
HPI: 38.61
Rank: 390
1922 - 2019
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 391
1922 - 1991
HPI: 38.20
Rank: 392
1922 - 2023
HPI: 38.06
Rank: 393
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 394
1922 - 1986
HPI: 37.69
Rank: 395
1922 - 2006
HPI: 37.64
Rank: 396
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 397
1922 - 2017
HPI: 37.32
Rank: 398
1922 - 2023
HPI: 36.89
Rank: 399
1922 - 2012
HPI: 36.66
Rank: 400
1990 - 2010
HPI: 38.71
Rank: 396
1927 - 2010
HPI: 38.62
Rank: 397
1919 - 2010
HPI: 38.49
Rank: 398
1912 - 2010
HPI: 38.47
Rank: 399
1949 - 2010
HPI: 38.33
Rank: 400
1944 - 2010
HPI: 38.13
Rank: 401
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 402
1912 - 2010
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 403
1923 - 2010
HPI: 37.68
Rank: 404
1927 - 2010
HPI: 37.49
Rank: 405
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 406
1912 - 2010
HPI: 37.23
Rank: 407
1917 - 2010
HPI: 37.23
Rank: 408
Among people born in United Kingdom, Gil Merrick ranks 5,511 out of 7,765. Before him are Colley Cibber (1671), Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852), William Regal (1968), Russell T Davies (1963), George MacKay (1992), and Roy Evans (1948). After him are Bill Eckersley (1925), Gary Brabham (1961), Oliver Parker (1960), Kathy Kirby (1938), Yasmin Le Bon (1964), and Ann Packer (1942).
1671 - 1757
HPI: 38.01
Rank: 5,505
1852 - 1917
HPI: 38.00
Rank: 5,506
1968 - Present
HPI: 38.00
Rank: 5,507
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.99
Rank: 5,508
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.99
Rank: 5,509
1948 - Present
HPI: 37.98
Rank: 5,510
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 5,511
1925 - 1982
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,512
1961 - Present
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 5,513
1960 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 5,514
1938 - 2011
HPI: 37.92
Rank: 5,515
1964 - Present
HPI: 37.91
Rank: 5,516
1942 - Present
HPI: 37.90
Rank: 5,517
Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Gil Merrick ranks 303. Before him are Alan Mullery (1941), John Stones (1994), Mark Noble (1987), Henry Cockburn (1921), Scott Carson (1985), and Roy Evans (1948). After him are Bill Eckersley (1925), Tony Waiters (1937), Alan Kennedy (1954), Steve Sumner (1955), Allenby Chilton (1918), and Ian St John (1938).
1941 - Present
HPI: 38.12
Rank: 297
1994 - Present
HPI: 38.12
Rank: 298
1987 - Present
HPI: 38.10
Rank: 299
1921 - 2004
HPI: 38.08
Rank: 300
1985 - Present
HPI: 38.01
Rank: 301
1948 - Present
HPI: 37.98
Rank: 302
1922 - 2010
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 303
1925 - 1982
HPI: 37.96
Rank: 304
1937 - 2020
HPI: 37.85
Rank: 305
1954 - Present
HPI: 37.82
Rank: 306
1955 - 2017
HPI: 37.78
Rank: 307
1918 - 1996
HPI: 37.74
Rank: 308
1938 - 2021
HPI: 37.74
Rank: 309