1973 - Today
Ryan Joseph Giggs (born Wilson; 29 November 1973) is a Welsh football coach and former player. He is the manager of the Wales national team and a co-owner of Salford City. Giggs played his entire professional career for Manchester United and briefly served as the club's interim manager after the sacking of David Moyes in April 2014. Giggs is regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation.The son of rugby union and Wales international rugby league footballer Danny Wilson, Giggs was born in Cardiff but moved to Manchester at the age of six when his father joined Swinton RLFC. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryan Giggs has received more than 6,191,041 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Ryan Giggs is the 416th most popular soccer player (down from 399th in 2019), the 1,256th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,266th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Ryan Giggs ranks 416 out of 16,923. Before him are Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Gianpiero Combi, Zlatko Čajkovski, Koji Funamoto, Shogo Kamo, and José Antonio Camacho. After him are Guy Roux, Takeshi Kamo, Jürgen Grabowski, Jean Djorkaeff, Horst Hrubesch, and Juninho Pernambucano.
1945 - 2013
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 410
1902 - 1956
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 411
1923 - 1998
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 412
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 413
1915 - 1977
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 414
1955 - Present
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 415
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 416
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 417
1915 - 2004
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 418
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 419
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 420
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 421
1975 - Present
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 422
Among people born in 1973, Ryan Giggs ranks 23. Before him are Dida, Monica Seles, Marco Materazzi, Jan Koller, Thomas Tuchel, and Rüştü Reçber. After him are Makoto Shinkai, Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, Andrew Lincoln, Lena Headey, Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, and Vera Farmiga.
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 17
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 18
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 19
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.21
Rank: 20
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 21
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 22
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 23
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 24
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 25
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 26
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 27
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 28
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 29
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ryan Giggs ranks 1,256 out of 6,924. Before him are N. R. Pogson (1829), Thomas Arne (1710), Boy George (1961), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), and John Nash (1752). After him are Edward Bach (1886), Alfred Molina (1953), Edith Cavell (1865), J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943), Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883), and William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146).
1829 - 1891
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 1,250
1710 - 1778
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 1,251
1961 - Present
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 1,252
1475 - 1499
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 1,253
1935 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 1,254
1752 - 1835
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 1,255
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 1,256
1886 - 1936
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 1,257
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,258
1865 - 1915
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,259
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,260
1883 - 1950
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1,261
1146 - 1219
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 1,262
Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Ryan Giggs ranks 16. Before him are Duncan Edwards (1936), Peter Shilton (1949), Kevin Keegan (1951), Brian Clough (1935), Bob Paisley (1919), and Frank Lampard (1978). After him are Steven Gerrard (1980), John Charles (1931), Harry Gregg (1932), Gary Lineker (1960), Jack Charlton (1935), and Wayne Rooney (1985).
1936 - 1958
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 10
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 11
1951 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 12
1935 - 2004
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 13
1919 - 1996
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 14
1978 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 15
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 16
1980 - Present
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 17
1931 - 2004
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 18
1932 - 2020
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 19
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 20
1935 - 2020
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 21
1985 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 22