RUGBY PLAYER

Richie McCaw

1980 - Today

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Richard Hugh McCaw (born 31 December 1980) is a retired New Zealand professional rugby union player. He captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award a joint record three times and was the most capped test rugby player of all time from August 2015 to October 2020. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richie McCaw has received more than 2,537,362 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richie McCaw is the 8th most popular rugby player (up from 10th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 139th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular New Zealander Rugby Player.

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  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RUGBY PLAYERS

Among rugby players, Richie McCaw ranks 8 out of 35. Before him are Auguste Giroux, Francois Pienaar, Sébastien Chabal, André Rischmann, Léon Binoche, and Jonny Wilkinson. After him are Dan Carter, Joost van der Westhuizen, Percy Montgomery, Bryan Habana, Sergio Parisse, and Jonathan Sexton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Richie McCaw ranks 205. Before him are Javad Nekounam, Jasika Nicole, Tomokazu Sugita, Raema Lisa Rumbewas, Slim Thug, and Tim Borowski. After him are Kiril Lazarov, Sophia Myles, Alen Simonyan, April Bowlby, Mamiko Noto, and Asashōryū Akinori.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Richie McCaw ranks 96 out of 303. Before him are Chris Hipkins (1978), Bill English (1961), Mark Hunt (1974), Anthony McCarten (1961), Zoë Bell (1978), and Graham McRae (1940). After him are Ross Collinge (1944), Niki Caro (1967), Lucky Diamond Rich (1971), Dan Carter (1982), John Hunter (1943), and Onny Parun (1947).

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Among RUGBY PLAYERS In New Zealand

Among rugby players born in New Zealand, Richie McCaw ranks 2. Before him are Jonah Lomu (1975). After him are Dan Carter (1982), Sonny Bill Williams (1985), Beauden Barrett (1991), Brodie Retallick (1991), Kieran Read (1985), Kelly Brazier (1989), Portia Woodman (1991), Sarah Hirini (1992), Tyla Nathan-Wong (1994), and Theresa Fitzpatrick (1995).

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