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SOCCER PLAYER

Roger Hunt

1938 - 2021

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Roger Hunt (20 July 1938 – 27 September 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. Eleven years with Liverpool, he was the club's record goalscorer with 285 goals until being overtaken by Ian Rush. Nonetheless, Hunt remains Liverpool's record league goalscorer with 244 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Hunt has received more than 1,058,390 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Roger Hunt is the 560th most popular soccer player (up from 1,681st in 2019), the 1,578th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,779th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roger Hunt ranks 560 out of 16,880Before him are Igor Belanov, Domingos da Guia, David Luiz, Ahmed Faras, Bixente Lizarazu, and Héctor Rial. After him are Akira Matsunaga, Ali Sami Yen, Bruno Metsu, Danny Blind, Toshio Miyaji, and Emmanuel Adebayor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Roger Hunt ranks 148Before him are Jean-Loup Chrétien, Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria, Daidō Moriyama, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Isao Inokuma, and Ieronymos II of Athens. After him are Goh Kun, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Richard Beymer, Giant Baba, Sjaak Swart, and Bernadette Lafont. Among people deceased in 2021, Roger Hunt ranks 192Before him are Carlyle Glean, Marshall Sahlins, Paulias Matane, Alexander Gradsky, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, and Jovan Divjak. After him are Ned Beatty, Elgin Baylor, Arlene Dahl, Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Cicely Tyson, and Edward Cassidy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Hunt ranks 1,578 out of 7,765Before him are John Barbirolli (1899), Oliver Hart (1948), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), and Rafael Merry del Val (1865). After him are Eric Knight (1897), George Smith (1840), Kate Moss (1974), Sam Worthington (1976), James Edward Smith (1759), and Steve Hackett (1950).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Roger Hunt ranks 31Before him are Frank Lampard (1978), Roger Byrne (1929), Herbert Kilpin (1870), Fergus Suter (1857), Gareth Bale (1989), and Ally McCoist (1962). After him are Paul Scholes (1974), Michael Owen (1979), Phil Jones (1992), Geoff Hurst (1941), Dixie Dean (1907), and Paul Gascoigne (1967).