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Rio Ferdinand

1978 - Today

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Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born 7 November 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, and is now a television pundit for TNT Sports. He played 81 times for the England national team between 1997 and 2011, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rio Ferdinand has received more than 7,677,211 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Rio Ferdinand is the 1,046th most popular soccer player (up from 1,749th in 2019), the 2,253rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,838th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Rio Ferdinand ranks 1,046 out of 16,880. Before him are Mário Jardel, Pietro Vierchowod, Takeo Takahashi, Michael Carrick, Néstor Combin, and Silvio Marzolini. After him are Ivan Perišić, Karel Poborský, Dušan Uhrin, Bauer, Joaquín Caparrós, and Raoul Lambert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Rio Ferdinand ranks 40. Before him are Vanessa-Mae, Jensen Ackles, Nicole Scherzinger, Claudio Pizarro, Kakha Kaladze, and Shunsuke Nakamura. After him are Gael García Bernal, Ha Ji-won, Luis Fonsi, Jeton Kelmendi, Walter Samuel, and Eiður Guðjohnsen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rio Ferdinand ranks 2,253 out of 7,765. Before him are Anthony Horowitz (1955), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Michael Carrick (1981), Æthelbald of Mercia (null), Frank Bridge (1879), and Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903). After him are Asma al-Assad (1975), George Cruikshank (1792), Cuthred of Wessex (750), Matthew Paris (1200), Julian Bream (1933), and William Smith (1813).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Rio Ferdinand ranks 49. Before him are Billy Wright (1924), Gordon Milne (1937), Peter Crouch (1981), Tommy Taylor (1932), Herbert Chapman (1878), and Michael Carrick (1981). After him are Jamie Vardy (1987), Dennis Viollet (1933), John Terry (1980), Sol Campbell (1974), Jock Stein (1922), and Steve Bruce (1960).

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