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Nicolae Rainea

1933 - 2015

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Nicolae Rainea (19 November 1933 – 1 April 2015), nicknamed The Locomotive of the Carpathians, was a Romanian football referee and player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolae Rainea has received more than 38,022 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nicolae Rainea is the 12th most popular referee (down from 6th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Romania (down from 234th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 38k

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  • 48.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Nicolae Rainea ranks 12 out of 107Before her are Romualdo Arppi Filho, Markus Merk, Felix Brych, Said Belqola, Horacio Elizondo, and Howard Webb. After her are Nicola Rizzoli, Maurice Guigue, Rudi Glöckner, Gottfried Dienst, Byron Moreno, and Tom Henning Øvrebø.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Nicolae Rainea ranks 265Before her are Tete Montoliu, Carol Burnett, Arif Malikov, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Lucian Pintilie, and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. After her are Ayako Wakao, Jonathan Penrose, Titus Buberník, H. D. Deve Gowda, James Wolfensohn, and Bob Rafelson. Among people deceased in 2015, Nicolae Rainea ranks 225Before her are László Paskai, Geoffrey Howe, Karl Josef Becker, Nora Brockstedt, Lizabeth Scott, and Betsy Palmer. After her are Karl-Erik Palmér, Dusty Rhodes, Henry Carr, Nicholas Liverpool, Ninón Sevilla, and Julio Terrazas Sandoval.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Nicolae Rainea ranks 280 out of 665Before her are Corneliu Baba (1906), Constantin von Economo (1876), Aurel Popovici (1863), Cristian Chivu (1980), Béla Károlyi (1942), and Elemér Kocsis (1910). After her are Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei (1946), Gigi Becali (1958), Theodor Stolojan (1943), Marcel Iureș (1951), Nicolae Kovács (1911), and Andrei Mureșanu (1816).

Among REFEREES In Romania

Among referees born in Romania, Nicolae Rainea ranks 1After her are Ovidiu Hațegan (1980).