SOCCER PLAYER

John McKenna

1855 - 1936

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John McKenna (Irish: Seán Mac Cionnaoith; 3 January 1855 – 22 March 1936) was an Irish businessman, professional rugby player, and the first manager of the Liverpool Football Club which has since gone on to become one of the most successful football clubs in England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John McKenna has received more than 85,990 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John McKenna is the 4,933rd most popular soccer player (down from 4,612th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 312th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Irish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John McKennas by language

Over the past year John McKenna has had the most page views in the with 11,835 views, followed by Russian (1,139), and French (1,045). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (179.83%), Hungarian (89.53%), and Egyptian Arabic (23.31%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, John McKenna ranks 4,933 out of 21,273Before him are Michael Tarnat, Jan van Diepenbeek, Stoyan Yordanov, Daniel Sanabria, Pavol Biroš, and Renan Lodi. After him are Romildo Etcheverry, Mario Pašalić, Javi Gracia, Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Marc Berdoll, and Sergio Brighenti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, John McKenna ranks 101Before him are William Friese-Greene, Pierre Puiseux, August Spies, Clinton Hart Merriam, Edward Angle, and Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová. After him are Lidiya Tseraskaya, Edward William Nelson, Sarah E. Goode, Arthur Wing Pinero, and Frederick McCubbin. Among people deceased in 1936, John McKenna ranks 187Before him are Jean Jacoby, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Edmund Breese, Lorenzo Mangiante, Hermanus Brockmann, and Abraham Berge. After him are Eugène Grisot, Frank Hornby, George Dern, and Thomas Meighan.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John McKenna ranks 301 out of 549Before him are Graham Norton (1963), Brian Shawe-Taylor (1915), Mary Proctor (1862), Geraldine Somerville (1967), Michael O'Leary (1961), and Katie McGrath (1983). After him are George Brent (1904), Tom Kiely (1869), Colm Wilkinson (1944), Milo O'Shea (1926), Tom Crean (1877), and Anne Buttimer (1938).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ireland

Among soccer players born in Ireland, John McKenna ranks 12Before him are Billy Whelan (1935), Liam Brady (1956), John O'Shea (1981), Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), Tony Dunne (1941), and Denis Irwin (1965). After him are Frank O'Farrell (1927), Johnny Giles (1940), Damien Duff (1979), Johnny Carey (1919), Shay Given (1976), and Frank Stapleton (1956).