SOCCER PLAYER

Helmut Rahn

1929 - 2003

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Helmut Rahn (16 August 1929 – 14 August 2003), known as Der Boss (The Boss), was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup (West Germany vs. Hungary 3–2). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Rahn has received more than 304,738 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Helmut Rahn is the 127th most popular soccer player (up from 201st in 2019), the 691st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,173rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Soccer Player.

Helmut Rahn was a German footballer who was most famous for scoring the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup Final against Hungary.

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  • 300k

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  • 63.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Helmut Rahn ranks 127 out of 21,273. Before him are Alessandro Del Piero, Nils Liedholm, Fabio Cannavaro, Miroslav Klose, Paulo Roberto Falcão, and José Nasazzi. After him are Lucien Laurent, Filippo Inzaghi, Gérson, Edwin van der Sar, Tostão, and Jan Jongbloed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Helmut Rahn ranks 45. Before him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Lennart Meri, Graham Hill, Richard E. Taylor, Bruno Cremer, and Milorad Pavić. After him are Eric Kandel, Werner Arber, Bill Evans, Zoltán Czibor, Christa Wolf, and Yevgeny Primakov. Among people deceased in 2003, Helmut Rahn ranks 28. Before him are Zoran Đinđić, Otto Günsche, Maurice Blanchot, Luciano Berio, Frederick Chapman Robbins, and Bernard Katz. After him are Isser Harel, Alberto Sordi, Compay Segundo, Leon Uris, Franco Modigliani, and Richard Crenna.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Rahn ranks 691 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Otto (1869), George V of Hanover (1819), Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Moritz Schlick (1882), and Bernard Katz (1911). After him are Moses Hess (1812), Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738), Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (1174), Jost Gippert (1956), Johann Tetzel (1460), and Georg Elser (1903).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Helmut Rahn ranks 14. Before him are Paul Breitner (1951), Rudi Völler (1960), Andreas Brehme (1960), Fritz Walter (1920), Bert Trautmann (1923), and Berti Vogts (1946). After him are Harald Schumacher (1954), Felix Magath (1953), Günter Netzer (1944), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Michael Ballack (1976), and Manuel Neuer (1986).

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