SOCCER PLAYER

Jimmy Johnstone

1944 - 2006

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James Connolly Johnstone (30 September 1944 – 13 March 2006) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Known as "Jinky" for his elusive dribbling style, Johnstone played for Celtic for 13 years, and was part of the 'Lisbon Lions', the team who won the 1967 European Cup Final, as well as winning nine consecutive Scottish championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Johnstone has received more than 684,836 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jimmy Johnstone is the 2,116th most popular soccer player (up from 3,315th in 2019), the 2,993rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,145th in 2019) and the 97th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jimmy Johnstones by language

Over the past year Jimmy Johnstone has had the most page views in the with 75,832 views, followed by Spanish (6,888), and Italian (4,923). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (227.17%), Southern Azerbaijani (76.95%), and Galician (68.05%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jimmy Johnstone ranks 2,116 out of 21,273. Before him are Bernabé Ferreyra, Marco Antônio, Dado Pršo, Pat Jennings, Ricardo Gomes, and Heinz Stuy. After him are Javier Pastore, Waldemar Victorino, Hakan Yakin, José Callejón, Aleksandr Mostovoi, and Paulo Sérgio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jimmy Johnstone ranks 414. Before him are Ulli Lommel, Gregory Hoblit, Uschi Glas, František Pospíšil, Monica Bleibtreu, and Antal Nagy. After him are Julio Montero Castillo, Al Kooper, Patrick Devedjian, Andrew Loog Oldham, Terry Jacks, and Miguel Ríos. Among people deceased in 2006, Jimmy Johnstone ranks 207. Before him are Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, André Schwarz-Bart, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Eugene Lazowski, and Jean-Louis de Rambures. After him are Pjetër Arbnori, Ray Barretto, Miroslav Brozović, Bertil Antonsson, Hans Berglund, and Karl Hugo Strunz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Johnstone ranks 2,993 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Pat Jennings (1945), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Ray Lankester (1847), Sidney Robinson (1876), and John Robison (1739). After him are Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Piers Morgan (1965), Ronald Lacey (1935), Charles Crichton (1910), Michael Winner (1935), and Jack Clayton (1921).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Johnstone ranks 97. Before him are Reece James (1999), Francis Lee (1944), Alan Ball Jr. (1945), Jimmy McGrory (1904), Andy Cole (1971), and Pat Jennings (1945). After him are Fred Pentland (1883), Ted Drake (1912), Paul Cook (1956), Jesse Carver (1911), Jamie Carragher (1978), and Mark Hughes (1963).

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