SOCCER PLAYER

Peter Lorimer

1946 - 2021

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Peter Patrick Lorimer (14 December 1946 – 20 March 2021) was a Scottish professional footballer, best known for his time with Leeds United and Scotland during the late 1960s and early 1970s. An attacking midfielder and the club's youngest-ever player, he was renowned for his powerful strikes from distance. From 1984 to 1985 he was club captain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lorimer has received more than 615,124 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Peter Lorimer is the 3,111th most popular soccer player (down from 2,647th in 2019), the 3,757th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,678th in 2019) and the 128th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Peter Lorimer ranks 3,111 out of 21,273. Before him are Lucas Torreira, Adri van Male, Ferenc Sipos, Simón Lecue, Josef Zeman, and Nicolás Burdisso. After him are Ashley Young, Alberto Górriz, Manuel Jiménez Jiménez, Jozef Chovanec, Federico Vairo, and Miklós Páncsics.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Peter Lorimer ranks 529. Before him are Roy Thomas Baker, Helen Shapiro, J. E. Freeman, Stephen Hunter, Rudy Rucker, and Ali Parvin. After him are Juan Amat, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Ángel Bargas, René Pijnen, Alan Dean Foster, and Larry Graham. Among people deceased in 2021, Peter Lorimer ranks 418. Before him are Sabine Weiss, Peter Del Monte, Elmira Minita Gordon, Monte Hellman, Harry Reid, and Shankha Ghosh. After him are Vladimir Naumov, Lawrence Weiner, Hryhorii Chapkis, Norberto Boggio, John Polkinghorne, and Tony Trabert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Lorimer ranks 3,757 out of 8,785. Before him are Max Beerbohm (1872), Alex Salmond (1954), John Neville Keynes (1852), William Davenant (1606), Ed Skrein (1983), and Edgar Wright (1974). After him are Ashley Young (1985), Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), Herbert Marshall (1890), Victor d'Arcy (1887), and Jim Bellamy (1881).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Peter Lorimer ranks 128. Before him are Eric Brook (1907), Phil Neal (1951), Eddie Colman (1936), Joe Hart (1987), Paul Ince (1967), and Sid Kimpton (1887). After him are Ashley Young (1985), Jim Bellamy (1881), Gordon Strachan (1957), Vivian Woodward (1879), Ernest Payne (1884), and Ray Wilson (1934).

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