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Ray Reardon

1932 - 2024

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Raymond Reardon (8 October 1932 – 19 July 2024) was a Welsh professional snooker player who dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning the World Snooker Championship six times and claiming more than a dozen other professional titles. Due to his dark widow's peak and prominent eye teeth, he was nicknamed "Dracula". Until his mid-thirties, Reardon worked as a coal miner and then as a police officer while pursuing snooker at an amateur level. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Reardon has received more than 1,567,965 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ray Reardon is the 9th most popular snooker (down from 6th in 2019), the 3,909th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,656th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Snooker.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SNOOKERS

Among snookers, Ray Reardon ranks 9 out of 67. Before him are Steve Davis, John Pulman, Stephen Hendry, Dennis Taylor, Jimmy White, and John Higgins. After him are Mark Selby, Mark Williams, Fred Davis, Judd Trump, Marco Fu, and Neil Robertson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Ray Reardon ranks 369. Before him are Oliver Nelson, Stéphane Bruey, Ludovico Avio, Richard Dawson, Margarita Xhepa, and Fazu Aliyeva. After him are Luís Vinício, Edward O. Thorp, Alma Cogan, Barbara Loden, István Kausz, and Gavril Dejeu. Among people deceased in 2024, Ray Reardon ranks 326. Before him are Dikembe Mutombo, Earl Holliman, Peter Schickele, Liang Guanglie, Yamini Krishnamurthy, and Mahieddine Khalef. After him are Duane Eddy, Josef Jelínek, Laurent Cantet, Mark Damon, James Darren, and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ray Reardon ranks 3,909 out of 8,785. Before him are Guy Butler (1899), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), Archibald Geikie (1835), Richard Attwood (1940), Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey (1880), and David Jason (1940). After him are Julian Richings (1955), Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar (940), Celia Imrie (1952), William Garbutt (1883), William Martin (1767), and Mel B (1975).

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Among SNOOKERS In United Kingdom

Among snookers born in United Kingdom, Ray Reardon ranks 9. Before him are Steve Davis (1957), John Pulman (1923), Stephen Hendry (1969), Dennis Taylor (1949), Jimmy White (1962), and John Higgins (1975). After him are Mark Selby (1983), Mark Williams (1975), Fred Davis (1913), Judd Trump (1989), Terry Griffiths (1947), and Walter Donaldson (1907).

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