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Poul Nielsen

1891 - 1962

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Niels Poul "Tist" Nielsen (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1962) was a Danish footballer who is the joint all-time best goalscorer for the Denmark national team with 52 goals in 38 matches. Nielsen won a silver medal with the national team at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He played his career as a striker for Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, with whom he won six Danish football championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Poul Nielsen has received more than 210,377 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Poul Nielsen is the 401st most popular soccer player (up from 917th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 278th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Poul Nielsen ranks 401 out of 16,880. Before him are György Sárosi, Cláudio Taffarel, Antonín Puč, Ferenc Deák, Pedro Petrone, and Shiro Misaki. After him are Émerson Leão, Ronnie Hellström, Artur Jorge, Lukas Podolski, Steven Gerrard, and Tofiq Bahramov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Poul Nielsen ranks 57. Before him are John Heartfield, John Langenus, Shizo Kanakuri, Oswald Boelcke, Hu Shih, and Kurt von Tippelskirch. After him are Lajos Zilahy, Walter A. Shewhart, Gio Ponti, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, and Lilya Brik. Among people deceased in 1962, Poul Nielsen ranks 55. Before him are Thomas Mitchell, Leonardo De Lorenzo, Lei Feng, Frank Borzage, Muhammad VIII al-Amin, and Hu Shih. After him are E. E. Cummings, Henri Wallon, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, Emil Artin, Tod Browning, and Ricardo Rodríguez.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Poul Nielsen ranks 177 out of 893. Before him are Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1814), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1829), and Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532). After him are Connie Nielsen (1965), Thorvald Stauning (1873), Prince Joachim of Denmark (1969), Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (1943), Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (1935), and Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Poul Nielsen ranks 4. Before him are Peter Schmeichel (1963), Allan Simonsen (1952), and Richard Møller Nielsen (1937). After him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Søren Lerby (1958), Christian Eriksen (1992), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Harald Nielsen (1941), Henning Jensen (1949), Kenneth Zohore (1994), and John Hansen (1924).

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