1897 - 1977
Josef "Sepp" Herberger (28 March 1897 – 28 April 1977) was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West Germany national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, a match later dubbed The Miracle of Bern, defeating the overwhelming favourites from Hungary. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sepp Herberger has received more than 212,807 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Sepp Herberger is the 282nd most popular soccer player (up from 286th in 2019), the 1,461st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,318th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Sepp Herberger ranks 282 out of 16,880. Before him are Kylian Mbappé, Hisataka Okamoto, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Lorenzo Buffon, Niko Kovač, and Hernán Crespo. After him are Hirokazu Ninomiya, Junji Nishikawa, Obdulio Varela, Kiyonosuke Marutani, Diego Forlán, and Erwin Koeman.
1998 - Present
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 276
1933 - Present
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 277
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 278
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 279
1971 - Present
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 280
1975 - Present
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 281
1897 - 1977
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 282
1917 - 2000
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 283
1907 - Present
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 284
1917 - 1996
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 285
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 286
1979 - Present
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 287
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 288
Among people born in 1897, Sepp Herberger ranks 73. Before him are Sidney Bechet, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Judith Anderson, Jean Epstein, Thornton Wilder, and Philippe Soupault. After him are Hans Speidel, Mukhtar Auezov, Ana Aslan, Johann Rattenhuber, Károly Kerényi, and Maria Valtorta. Among people deceased in 1977, Sepp Herberger ranks 47. Before him are Stephen Boyd, Abdel Halim Hafez, John Dickson Carr, Modibo Keïta, Oskar Morgenstern, and Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Paul Desmond, Leopold Stokowski, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Marc Bolan, Hamida Djandoubi, and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
1897 - 1959
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 67
1897 - 1941
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 68
1897 - 1992
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 69
1897 - 1953
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 70
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 71
1897 - 1990
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 72
1897 - 1977
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 73
1897 - 1984
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 74
1897 - 1961
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 75
1897 - 1988
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 76
1897 - 1957
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 77
1897 - 1973
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 78
1897 - 1961
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 79
1931 - 1977
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 41
1929 - 1977
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 42
1906 - 1977
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 43
1915 - 1977
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 44
1902 - 1977
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 45
1889 - 1977
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 46
1897 - 1977
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 47
1924 - 1977
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 48
1882 - 1977
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 49
1899 - 1977
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 50
1947 - 1977
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 51
1949 - 1977
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 52
1896 - 1977
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 53
Among people born in Germany, Sepp Herberger ranks 1,461 out of 6,142. Before him are Georg Kerschensteiner (1854), Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (1319), Niko Kovač (1971), and Wolfram Sievers (1905). After him are Anne Wiazemsky (1947), Hans Speidel (1897), Karl Korsch (1886), Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736), Jens Lehmann (1969), and Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830).
1854 - 1932
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,455
1572 - 1632
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,456
1777 - 1843
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 1,457
1319 - 1375
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,458
1971 - Present
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,459
1905 - 1948
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 1,460
1897 - 1977
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 1,461
1947 - 2017
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 1,462
1897 - 1984
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 1,463
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 1,464
1736 - 1798
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 1,465
1969 - Present
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 1,466
1830 - 1912
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 1,467
Among soccer players born in Germany, Sepp Herberger ranks 28. Before him are Bert Trautmann (1923), Andreas Brehme (1960), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Jupp Derwall (1927), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), and Niko Kovač (1971). After him are Jens Lehmann (1969), Dettmar Cramer (1925), Thomas Müller (1989), Horst Eckel (1932), Uli Stielike (1954), and Oliver Bierhoff (1968).
1923 - 2013
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 22
1960 - 2024
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 23
1973 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 24
1927 - 2007
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 25
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 26
1971 - Present
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 27
1897 - 1977
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 28
1969 - Present
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 29
1925 - 2015
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 30
1989 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 31
1932 - 2021
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 32
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 33
1968 - Present
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 34