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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 136,092 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Metin Oktay is the 887th most popular soccer player (down from 828th in 2019), the 802nd most popular biography from Turkey (down from 734th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Turkish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Metin Oktay ranks 887 out of 16,880. Before him are Marcelo Salas, Harald Nielsen, Yukio Shimomura, Horst-Dieter Höttges, Sergio Goycochea, and Patrick Battiston. After him are Philippe Troussier, Peter Crouch, Mikheil Meskhi, Klaus Augenthaler, Louis Pilot, and José Della Torre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Metin Oktay ranks 192. Before him are Guillermo Endara, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Trần Đức Lương, Carla Fracci, Hazem El Beblawi, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. After him are Mary Tyler Moore, Bobby Seale, Philip Kaufman, Canaan Banana, Frederic Forrest, and Norma Aleandro. Among people deceased in 1991, Metin Oktay ranks 96. Before him are Rufino Tamayo, Giacomo Manzù, Shintaro Abe, Heidi Brühl, Yasushi Inoue, and Otl Aicher. After him are Mikheil Meskhi, Antoine Berman, Helmut Walcha, Schubert Gambetta, Zino Francescatti, and Claude Cahen.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Metin Oktay ranks 802 out of 1,301. Before him are Asad ibn al-Furat (759), Athanasius I of Constantinople (1230), Joseph Bringas (950), Evodius (50), Alexander of Jerusalem (200), and Benjamin I of Constantinople (1871). After him are Constantine I, Prince of Armenia (1035), Sertab Erener (1964), Alexios Apokaukos (1250), Halil İnalcık (1916), Ariarathes V of Cappadocia (-200), and Marcia Euphemia (500).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Turkey

Among soccer players born in Turkey, Metin Oktay ranks 6. Before him are Hakan Şükür (1971), Ali Sami Yen (1886), Rüştü Reçber (1973), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (1924), and Arda Turan (1987). After him are Mustafa Denizli (1949), Burak Yılmaz (1985), Emre Belözoğlu (1980), Turgay Şeren (1932), Burhan Sargun (1929), and Nihat Kahveci (1979).

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