SOCCER PLAYER

Jimmy Jones

1928 - 2014

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James Jones (25 July 1928 – 13 February 2014) was a Northern Irish footballer who played as a forward. He is the leading goalscorer in the history of Irish League football with a total of 647 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Jones has received more than 40,962 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jimmy Jones is the 3,847th most popular soccer player, the 4,236th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 172nd most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jimmy Jones ranks 3,847 out of 21,273Before him are Ricardo, Eladio Rojas, Marcel Aubour, Miguel Ángel Russo, Tommy Docherty, and Albert Rust. After him are Fritz Keller, Júnior Baiano, Levir Culpi, Sarina Wiegman, Demba Ba, and Abdelkader Ben Bouali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jimmy Jones ranks 461Before him are Nigel Davenport, Alice Drummond, Thomas E. Kurtz, Marcos Calderón, Mustapha Zitouni, and Tommy Docherty. After him are Jacques Rouffio, Pete Rademacher, Manuel Álvarez, Ardico Magnini, Finn Haunstoft, and Barbara Ann Scott. Among people deceased in 2014, Jimmy Jones ranks 396Before him are David Malet Armstrong, Blagoje Paunović, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Odd Iversen, Mustapha Zitouni, and Jürgen Kurbjuhn. After him are Geoffrey Holder, Jaroslav Walter, Sirkka Polkunen, Glenn Cornick, Michio Mado, and Roberto Telch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Jones ranks 4,236 out of 8,785Before him are Michael Grant (1914), William Friese-Greene (1855), David C. Jewitt (1958), Tommy Docherty (1928), Roy Kinnear (1934), and Allen Jones (1937). After him are Clive Swift (1936), John Loder (1898), Robin Hill (1899), Peter Mark Roget (1779), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), and John Morley (1838).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Jones ranks 172Before him are Peter Osgood (1947), Jimmy Armfield (1935), Danny Blanchflower (1926), Jim Brown (1908), Robbie Fowler (1975), and Tommy Docherty (1928). After him are Tony Adams (1966), Charles W. Alcock (1842), Stan Mortensen (1921), Jadon Sancho (2000), Adebayo Akinfenwa (1982), and Cliff Bastin (1912).