SOCCER PLAYER

Péter Palotás

1929 - 1967

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Péter Palotás (27 June 1929 – 17 May 1967), born as Péter Poteleczky, was a Hungarian footballer who played as a forward for MTK Budapest FC and Hungary. During the 1950s he was a fringe member of the team known as the Mighty Magyars and played alongside the likes of Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, Nándor Hidegkuti and József Bozsik. Palotás was an early pioneer of the deep-lying centre-forward role and in 1955 he scored the first ever hat-trick in a European Cup game. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Péter Palotás has received more than 41,030 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Péter Palotás is the 1,231st most popular soccer player (down from 907th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 287th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

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  • 52.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Péter Palotás ranks 1,231 out of 21,273. Before him are António Simões, José Torres, Vinícius Júnior, Samir Nasri, Steve McManaman, and Roger Hunt. After him are José Della Torre, Nobuyuki Oishi, Marc-Vivien Foé, Blagoje Marjanović, Ousmane Dembélé, and Daniel Van Buyten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Péter Palotás ranks 214. Before him are Nigel Hawthorne, Jack Higgins, François Cheng, Bernard Williams, Milton Glaser, and Kjell Askildsen. After him are Sixten Jernberg, Horst Frank, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Hal Ashby, and Hugues Aufray. Among people deceased in 1967, Péter Palotás ranks 130. Before him are Holland Smith, Tudor Arghezi, José Martínez Ruiz, Geraldine Farrar, André-Louis Danjon, and Antonio Moreno. After him are George S. Robertson, Mikhail Kovalyov, Fatima Jinnah, Sydir Kovpak, Iona Nikitchenko, and Radhabinod Pal.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Péter Palotás ranks 328 out of 1,077. Before him are Miklós Radnóti (1909), Raoul Bott (1923), Tivadar Puskás (1844), Ottó Bláthy (1860), Catherine Schell (1944), and Friar Julian (1250). After him are Johann Löwenthal (1810), Gordon Bajnai (1968), Stephen Heller (1813), Antal Dunai (1943), Zoltán Varga (1945), and András Arató (1945).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Péter Palotás ranks 33. Before him are Géza Toldi (1909), György Orth (1901), Dezső Novák (1939), Lippo Hertzka (1904), Márton Bukovi (1903), and László Fazekas (1947). After him are Antal Dunai (1943), Zoltán Varga (1945), József Takács (1904), Pál Titkos (1908), Ferenc Hirzer (1902), and Lajos Baróti (1914).

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