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Markus Merk

1962 - Today

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Markus Merk (born 15 March 1962) is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in recognition of his service to football and his charity work in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Markus Merk has received more than 132,263 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Markus Merk is the 7th most popular referee, the 3,613th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,571st in 2019) and the most popular German Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Markus Merks by language

Over the past year Markus Merk has had the most page views in the with 28,770 views, followed by English (16,125), and Italian (4,801). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (84.65%), Finnish (81.49%), and Uzbek (63.64%)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Markus Merk ranks 7 out of 147. Before him are Pierluigi Collina, Romualdo Arppi Filho, Ivan Eklind, Damir Skomina, Sándor Puhl, and Michel Vautrot. After him are Horacio Elizondo, Rudi Glöckner, Nicolae Rainea, Jack Taylor, Björn Kuipers, and Howard Webb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Markus Merk ranks 155. Before him are Paavo Järvi, James Michael Tyler, Carl Cox, Nigmatilla Yuldashev, Víctor Manuel Fernández, and Sakis Rouvas. After him are Oleksiy Danilov, Liza Marklund, Karel Roden, Maruschka Detmers, Ferran Adrià, and Esai Morales.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Markus Merk ranks 3,613 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Multscher (1400), Prince Arnulf of Bavaria (1852), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866), and Max August Zorn (1906). After him are Winfried Kretschmann (1948), Johann Walter (1496), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz (1884), Hermann Prey (1929), and Fritz Szepan (1907).

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Among REFEREES In Germany

Among referees born in Germany, Markus Merk ranks 1. After him are Rudi Glöckner (1929), Felix Brych (1975), Wolfgang Stark (1969), Bibiana Steinhaus (1979), Herbert Fandel (1964), Deniz Aytekin (1978), Daniel Siebert (1984), and Felix Zwayer (1981).

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