SOCCER PLAYER

Metin Oktay

1936 - 1991

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Metin Oktay (2 February 1936 – 13 September 1991) nicknamed the Crownless King (Turkish: Taçsız Kral) by Galatasaray fans, was a Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goal scorers in Turkey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Metin Oktay has received more than 146,555 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Metin Oktay is the 1,088th most popular soccer player (down from 887th in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 800th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Turkish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Metin Oktay ranks 1,088 out of 21,273. Before him are Marcelino García Toral, Erich Probst, Ángel Bossio, Frank Arnesen, Sven Rydell, and Knut Nordahl. After him are Raoul Lambert, William Foulke, Walter Samuel, Alfred Pfaff, Teruki Miyamoto, and István Nyers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Metin Oktay ranks 206. Before him are Adolfo Nicolás, Tony Musante, Trần Đức Lương, Šaban Bajramović, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, and Mary Tyler Moore. After him are Walter Koenig, Glenn Murcutt, Marion Chesney, Jim Brown, Joe Spinell, and Diana Hyland. Among people deceased in 1991, Metin Oktay ranks 102. Before him are Schubert Gambetta, Artur Lundkvist, Luigi Zampa, Yasushi Inoue, Étienne Decroux, and Franco Maria Malfatti. After him are Hitoshi Igarashi, Mario Scelba, Dead, Rufino Tamayo, Andrzej Panufnik, and Amadou Hampâté Bâ.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Metin Oktay ranks 683 out of 1,347. Before him are Hermogenes of Priene (-200), Diodorus of Tarsus (400), Ayşe Sultan (1887), Haluk Bilginer (1954), Constantine Lascaris (1434), and Ahmet Ertegun (1923). After him are Âşık Veysel (1894), Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904), Dorotheus of Tyre (255), Henri Langlois (1914), John Komnenos (1015), and Theodore Balsamon (1140).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Türkiye

Among soccer players born in Türkiye, Metin Oktay ranks 8. Before him are Burhan Sargun (1929), Ali Sami Yen (1886), Rüştü Reçber (1973), Akgün Kaçmaz (1935), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (1924), and Arda Turan (1987). After him are Mustafa Denizli (1949), Burak Yılmaz (1985), Emre Belözoğlu (1980), Turgay Şeren (1932), Hasan Şaş (1976), and Nihat Kahveci (1979).

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