Soccer Player

Mesut Özil

German association football player

1988 - today

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His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2024). Mesut Özil is the 380th most popular soccer player (down from 255th in 2024), the 1,310th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,172nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among Soccer Players

Among soccer players, Mesut Özil ranks 377 out of 21,273Before him are Tamotsu Asakura, Koji Miyata, Saizo Saito, Jari Litmanen, Günter Netzer, and Rinat Dasayev. After him are Thomas Müller, Shigeo Sugimoto, Elías Figueroa, Hiroshi Saeki, Alessandro Costacurta, and Marcel Desailly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Mesut Özil ranks 9Before him are Adele, Robert Lewandowski, Stephen Curry, Conor McGregor, Ángel Di María, and Marcelo. After him are Ibrahim Traoré, Grimes, Diego Costa, Kim Yo-jong, Kim Soo-hyun, and Yann Sommer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Mesut Özil ranks 1,310 out of NaNBefore him are Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach (1724), Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20), Erwin Piscator (1893), Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837), Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688), and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736). After him are Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), Thomas Müller (1989), George, Duke of Saxony (1471), Max Amann (1891), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), and Gottfried Benn (1886).

Among Soccer Players In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Mesut Özil ranks 24Before him are Harald Schumacher (1954), Niko Kovač (1971), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), Michael Ballack (1976), Manuel Neuer (1986), and Günter Netzer (1944). After him are Thomas Müller (1989), Sepp Herberger (1897), Helmut Haller (1939), Jens Lehmann (1969), Toni Kroos (1990), and Jupp Derwall (1927).

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