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Herbert Chapman

1878 - 1934

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Herbert Chapman (19 January 1878 – 6 January 1934) was an English football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most influential and successful managers in the early 20th century, before his sudden death in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Chapman has received more than 623,097 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Herbert Chapman is the 941st most popular soccer player (down from 891st in 2019), the 2,141st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,998th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 620k

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  • 52.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Herbert Chapman ranks 941 out of 16,880Before him are Jean-Marc Bosman, Panajot Pano, Miguel Ángel Nadal, Václav Ježek, Ivica Horvat, and Karol Dobiaš. After him are Domènec Balmanya, Juan Rodríguez Vega, Julio César Romero, Krasimir Balakov, Francesco Morini, and Ferran Olivella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Herbert Chapman ranks 103Before him are Louis Camille Maillard, Georgios Kondylis, Frank Jarvis, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Walther Ritz, and Louis Marcoussis. After him are Max Dehn, André Caplet, Stamen Grigorov, Glenn Curtiss, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, and Yemelyan Yaroslavsky. Among people deceased in 1934, Herbert Chapman ranks 80Before him are Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Paul Ulrich Villard, Rudolf Maister, Isaac Israëls, Alimardan Topchubashov, and Lauri Ingman. After him are James Mark Baldwin, Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Surya Sen, João do Canto e Castro, Roger Fry, and Alfred Bruneau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Chapman ranks 2,141 out of 7,765Before him are Maurice Evans (1901), John Bull (1562), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), William of Malmesbury (1080), Damien Hirst (1965), and Harold Abrahams (1899). After him are Guy Burgess (1911), Robert Brown (1921), Alan Price (1942), Paul Greengrass (1955), John Baskerville (1706), and Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Herbert Chapman ranks 47Before him are Jack Charlton (1935), Erling Braut Håland (2000), Billy Wright (1924), Gordon Milne (1937), Peter Crouch (1981), and Tommy Taylor (1932). After him are Michael Carrick (1981), Rio Ferdinand (1978), Jamie Vardy (1987), Dennis Viollet (1933), John Terry (1980), and Sol Campbell (1974).