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Ken Aston

1915 - 2001

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Kenneth George Aston, MBE (1 September 1915 – 23 October 2001) was an English teacher, soldier, and football referee, who was responsible for many important developments in football refereeing - including the yellow and red penalty card system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Aston has received more than 110,285 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Aston is the 295th most popular businessperson (up from 302nd in 2019), the 2,054th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,420th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ken Aston ranks 295 out of 601. Before him are Chuck Feeney, Lazare Ponticelli, B. C. Forbes, Edward Colston, Jimmy Lai, and Colonel Tom Parker. After him are Serge Dassault, Ghislaine Maxwell, Bruce Buck, Mark Thatcher, Mikimoto Kōkichi, and Haim Saban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Ken Aston ranks 107. Before him are Marais Viljoen, Jo Van Fleet, Robert Monroe, Mariano Rumor, John Profumo, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. After him are James Tiptree Jr., Albert O. Hirschman, Henry Kuttner, Caterina Boratto, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Among people deceased in 2001, Ken Aston ranks 106. Before him are Gregory Corso, Josef Klaus, Stefan Heym, Georgy Vitsin, William P. Rogers, and Robert Enrico. After him are Nigel Hawthorne, Rehavam Ze'evi, Viktor Astafyev, G. E. M. Anscombe, Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, and David Lewis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Aston ranks 2,054 out of 7,765. Before him are Paul Nurse (1949), William Cullen (1710), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Jimmy Savile (1926), and Mike Rutherford (1950). After him are Ernest William Brown (1866), Nigel Hawthorne (1929), Charlie Whiting (1952), Harry Redknapp (1947), Arnold Bennett (1867), and Lady Katherine Grey (1540).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Ken Aston ranks 18. Before him are Thomas Lipton (1848), David Icke (1952), Vidal Sassoon (1928), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), B. C. Forbes (1880), and Edward Colston (1636). After him are Mark Thatcher (1953), Edward Cave (1691), Alfred Edwards (1850), Henry Cole (1808), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), and William Knox D'Arcy (1849).

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