SOCCER PLAYER

Roy Aitken

1958 - Today

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Robert Sime "Roy" Aitken (born 24 November 1958) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He made over 480 league appearances for Celtic, and later played for Newcastle United, St Mirren and Aberdeen. Aitken also made 57 international appearances for Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Aitken has received more than 245,816 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Roy Aitken is the 10,841st most popular soccer player (down from 10,822nd in 2019), the 6,995th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,570th in 2019) and the 590th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 33.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Roy Aitkens by language

Over the past year Roy Aitken has had the most page views in the with 29,199 views, followed by German (1,155), and Polish (1,126). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (418.80%), Persian (230.77%), and Macedonian (47.54%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roy Aitken ranks 10,841 out of 21,273. Before him are Enzo Fernández, Joel Griffiths, Abdelaziz Barrada, Jairo Morillas, Benjamin Bourigeaud, and Lucas Beltrán. After him are David Fairclough, Hayden Foxe, Horst Heldt, Miloš Rus, Dedimar, and Srđan Lakić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Roy Aitken ranks 763. Before him are Kevin Schon, Paul Gosar, Garry Cook, Anne Michaels, Gcina Mhlophe, and Marie Yovanovitch. After him are Neil Adams, Cyrille Regis, Alvin Martin, Michael Turtur, Lucky Ali, and Brenda Phillips.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roy Aitken ranks 6,995 out of 8,785. Before him are Tom Hughes (1985), Dan Burn (1992), Tom Daley (1994), Mike Bailey (1988), Alfred E. Goodey (1878), and Matthew Tuck (1980). After him are David Fairclough (1957), Corinne Bailey Rae (1979), Will Kemp (1977), Shane Williams (1977), Meera Syal (1961), and John Herdman (1975).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Roy Aitken ranks 590. Before him are Lucy Bronze (1991), John Aston Jr. (1947), Tony Hibbert (1981), Neil Webb (1963), Stephy Mavididi (1998), and Dan Burn (1992). After him are David Fairclough (1957), Steven Davis (1985), Peter Storey (1945), Denis Compton (1918), Eddie Gray (1948), and Steve Bull (1965).

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