SOCCER PLAYER

Shoichi Nishimura

1912 - 1998

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Shoichi Nishimura (西邑 昌一, Nishimura Shōichi, 1912 – March 22, 1998) was a Japanese football player and manager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shoichi Nishimura has received more than 10,654 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Shoichi Nishimura is the 316th most popular soccer player (up from 383rd in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Japan (up from 434th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Shoichi Nishimura is most famous for the discovery of the Nishimura-Ogura syndrome, which is a genetic disorder that causes mental retardation and seizures.

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  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Shoichi Nishimura ranks 316 out of 21,273Before him are Sepp Piontek, Josep Samitier, Vujadin Boškov, José Antonio Camacho, Iván Zamorano, and György Sárosi. After him are Edu Coimbra, Alberto Suppici, Gianpiero Combi, Henri Delaunay, Hilderaldo Bellini, and Gerardo Martino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Shoichi Nishimura ranks 71Before him are Georg Solti, Petar Stambolić, Pat Nixon, A. E. van Vogt, Ivan Yakubovsky, and György Sárosi. After him are Julia Child, Taiichi Ohno, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Abbé Pierre, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, and Chaïm Perelman. Among people deceased in 1998, Shoichi Nishimura ranks 46Before him are Alan Hodgkin, Imi Lichtenfeld, Adem Jashari, David McClelland, Kunitaka Sueoka, and Maurice Bucaille. After him are Kurt Franz, Maria Reiche, Marie-Louise von Franz, James Earl Ray, Sonny Bono, and Ernst-Günther Schenck.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shoichi Nishimura ranks 328 out of 6,245Before him are Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Saitō Makoto (1858), Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), and Emperor Uda (867). After him are Emperor Ankan (466), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), and Emperor Go-Hanazono (1419).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Shoichi Nishimura ranks 19Before him are Yoshio Okada (1926), Takashi Kano (1920), Akira Nozawa (1914), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), and Waichiro Omura (1933). After him are Kiyonosuke Marutani (null), Hideo Sakai (1909), Takashi Kasahara (1918), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), Yasuo Takamori (1934), and Takashi Takabayashi (1931).