SOCCER PLAYER

Roy Bentley

1924 - 2018

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Roy Thomas Frank Bentley (17 May 1924 – 20 April 2018) was an English football player and manager. A former forward, Bentley played 367 games for Chelsea and captained the club to their first League Championship in the 1954–55 season. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Bentley has received more than 153,516 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Bentley is the 3,460th most popular soccer player (down from 3,343rd in 2019), the 4,010th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,158th in 2019) and the 151st most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roy Bentley ranks 3,460 out of 21,273. Before him are Samuel Zauber, Hugo Hovenkamp, Otto Andersson, Federico Valverde, Kaoru Mitoma, and Andreas Christensen. After him are Ivor Allchurch, Alex Song, Didier Zokora, Nils Eriksen, Eugen Meier, and Yasutaro Matsuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Roy Bentley ranks 373. Before him are Jackie Milburn, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Klaus Junge, Leo Buscaglia, Humberto Fernández-Morán, and Claude Netter. After him are Audouin Dollfus, Béla Zsitnik, Eugene Dynkin, Robert Körner, Bill Smith, and Giovanni Saldarini. Among people deceased in 2018, Roy Bentley ranks 360. Before him are Philippe Gondet, E. C. George Sudarshan, Doina Cornea, Nikolai Volkoff, Big Van Vader, and Carlo Giuffrè. After him are Joseph Bonnel, Per Ahlmark, Kazimierz Kutz, Houmane Jarir, Hal Greer, and Sven-Olov Sjödelius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roy Bentley ranks 4,010 out of 8,785. Before him are Sax Rohmer (1883), Brian Naylor (1923), Mary Garden (1874), William Robertson (1721), Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841), and David Cross (1949). After him are Ivor Allchurch (1929), Robert Whitehead (1823), David Beaton (1494), Aaron Ramsey (1990), Michael Ruse (1940), and Rick Allen (1963).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Roy Bentley ranks 151. Before him are Joe Mercer (1914), David James (1970), Tony Barton (1937), Bart McGhee (1899), Frank Lampard (1948), and Conor Gallagher (2000). After him are Ivor Allchurch (1929), Aaron Ramsey (1990), Harry Stafford (1869), Dave Mackay (1934), Jonny Evans (1988), and Alan A'Court (1934).

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