SOCCER PLAYER

Ray Wilkins

1956 - 2018

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Raymond Colin Wilkins (14 September 1956 – 4 April 2018) was an English football player and coach. Born into a footballing family with his father and three brothers involved in the game, Wilkins played as a midfielder. He began his career at Chelsea, where he was appointed captain at the age of 18, and later played for clubs including Manchester United, AC Milan, Queens Park Rangers and Rangers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Wilkins has received more than 2,344,674 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ray Wilkins is the 3,260th most popular soccer player (up from 3,731st in 2019), the 3,860th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,405th in 2019) and the 137th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ray Wilkins by language

Over the past year Ray Wilkins has had the most page views in the with 143,773 views, followed by Italian (20,623), and French (3,982). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (148.34%), Uzbek (125.52%), and Southern Azerbaijani (107.39%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ray Wilkins ranks 3,260 out of 21,273. Before him are Armandinho, Feridun Buğeker, Daniel Jarque, Konrad Hirsch, Albert Riera, and Owen Hargreaves. After him are Nabil Fekir, Klaus Sammer, Māris Verpakovskis, Georges Verriest, Francisco Valdés, and Mitsunori Fujiguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Ray Wilkins ranks 330. Before him are Jamie Dimon, Aleksandr Kaleri, Tim Daly, Bill Maher, Ted Gärdestad, and Joy Mangano. After him are Ahmad Zia Massoud, Thomas Wassberg, Schelte J. Bus, Chloe Webb, Héctor Rebaque, and Leonid Taranenko. Among people deceased in 2018, Ray Wilkins ranks 347. Before him are Anne V. Coates, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Mel Ramos, Warwick Estevam Kerr, José Antonio Zaldúa, and Dariush Shayegan. After him are Mohammed Hazzaz, Leo Falcam, Daša Drndić, Glenn Branca, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Viktor Kanevskyi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ray Wilkins ranks 3,860 out of 8,785. Before him are Spike Edney (1951), David Burke (1934), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Virginia McKenna (1931), Seán Lester (1888), and Talulah Riley (1985). After him are John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Paul Radmilovic (1886), Leslie Johnson (1912), David Richards (1952), Tom Walkinshaw (1946), and Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Ray Wilkins ranks 137. Before him are Gordon Strachan (1957), Vivian Woodward (1879), Ernest Payne (1884), Ray Wilson (1934), Ron Harris (1944), and George Graham (1944). After him are Ronnie Rooke (1911), Jimmy Hogan (1882), Stuart McCall (1964), William Garbutt (1883), Jackie Milburn (1924), and Arthur Berry (1888).

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