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SOCCER PLAYER

Jimmy Dickinson

1925 - 1982

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James William Dickinson MBE (25 April 1925 – 8 November 1982) was an English footballer who played as a left half. Dickinson holds the record for number of league appearances for Portsmouth (764). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Dickinson has received more than 117,128 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jimmy Dickinson is the 5,140th most popular soccer player (down from 4,749th in 2019), the 5,228th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,788th in 2019) and the 255th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 120k

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  • 39.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jimmy Dickinson ranks 5,140 out of 16,880Before him are Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Mehdi Nafti, Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Jeff Strasser, Álex Aguinaga, and David Jack. After him are Dick Schoenaker, Mart Poom, Willington Ortiz, Ron Springett, Wilfried Hannes, and Aleksandar Dragović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Jimmy Dickinson ranks 459Before him are Warren Frost, Tom Dowd, Heinz Ulzheimer, Robert Cormier, Frank Kameny, and Roy Brown. After him are Morgan Woodward, Salil Chowdhury, Albert Paulsen, Jay Chamberlain, Philip Carey, and Keshav Dutt. Among people deceased in 1982, Jimmy Dickinson ranks 259Before him are Rab Butler, Lester Bangs, Francisco Gamborena, Hugh Marlowe, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, and John Cody. After him are Tom Tully, Arthur Lowe, Hans Conried, Bill Eckersley, Eric Brandon, and Jack Webb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Dickinson ranks 5,228 out of 7,765Before him are Gary Speed (1969), Amanda Abbington (1974), Tanya Tate (1979), Craig David (1981), Kenneth Clarke (1940), and David Jack (1898). After him are Bernardine Evaristo (1959), Ron Springett (1935), Hugh Blair (1718), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Camilla Luddington (1983), and Viv Anderson (1956).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Dickinson ranks 255Before him are Pat Rice (1949), Norman Whiteside (1965), Steve Archibald (1956), Laurie Scott (1917), Gary Speed (1969), and David Jack (1898). After him are Ron Springett (1935), Viv Anderson (1956), Tom Heaton (1986), Harvey Barnes (1997), Derek Kevan (1935), and Alan Hansen (1955).