1895 - 1986
Sir Stanley Ford Rous (25 April 1895 – 18 July 1986) was an English football referee and the 6th President of FIFA, serving from 1961 to 1974. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Rous has received more than 283,285 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Stanley Rous is the 86th most popular businessperson (up from 96th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 766th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Businessperson.
Stanley Rous was a football referee who became the president of FIFA in 1961. He is most famous for being the president of FIFA when the 1966 World Cup was hosted in England.
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Among businesspeople, Stanley Rous ranks 86 out of 601. Before him are Louis Vuitton, Li Ka-shing, Adnan Khashoggi, Mercédès Jellinek, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Larry Flynt. After him are Mohamed Al-Fayed, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Ferdinand Piëch, Flavio Briatore, Paul Reuter, and Benjamin Guggenheim.
1821 - 1892
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 80
1928 - Present
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 81
1935 - 2017
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 82
1889 - 1929
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 83
1963 - Present
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 84
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 85
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 86
1929 - 2023
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 87
1891 - 1958
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 88
1937 - 2019
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 89
1950 - Present
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 90
1816 - 1899
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 91
1865 - 1912
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 92
Among people born in 1895, Stanley Rous ranks 53. Before him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Buckminster Fuller, Dorothea Lange, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Augusto César Sandino, and Richard Walther Darré. After him are William Giauque, Pavel Sukhoi, Ferdinand Čatloš, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, Wilhelm Kempff, and Hans-Georg von Friedeburg. Among people deceased in 1986, Stanley Rous ranks 35. Before him are Jaroslav Seifert, Minoru Yamasaki, Georges Dumézil, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonid Kantorovich, and Samora Machel. After him are Lê Duẩn, James Cagney, Robert S. Mulliken, Vincente Minnelli, Otto Preminger, and Dean Reed.
1895 - 1973
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 47
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 48
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 49
1895 - 1935
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 50
1895 - 1934
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 51
1895 - 1953
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 52
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 53
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 54
1895 - 1975
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 55
1895 - 1972
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 56
1895 - 1964
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 57
1895 - 1991
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 58
1895 - 1945
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 59
1901 - 1986
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 29
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 30
1898 - 1986
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 31
1911 - 1986
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 32
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 33
1933 - 1986
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 34
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 35
1907 - 1986
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 36
1899 - 1986
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 37
1896 - 1986
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 38
1903 - 1986
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 39
1905 - 1986
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 40
1938 - 1986
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 41
Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Rous ranks 656 out of 7,765. Before him are Hugh Laurie (1959), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Brook Taylor (1685), Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428), Christopher Tolkien (1924), and Muriel Spark (1918). After him are William Jones (1746), Jane Hawking (1944), Nigel Farage (1964), Bernard Lewis (1916), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), and E. H. Carr (1892).
1959 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 650
1860 - 1946
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 651
1685 - 1731
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 652
1428 - 1471
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 653
1924 - 2020
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 654
1918 - 2006
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 655
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 656
1746 - 1794
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 657
1944 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 658
1964 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 659
1916 - 2018
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 660
1864 - 1892
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 661
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 662
Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Stanley Rous ranks 8. Before him are Andrew Carnegie (1835), Thomas Cook (1808), Richard Branson (1950), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Frank Williams (1942), and J. Bruce Ismay (1862). After him are John McAfee (1945), Brian Epstein (1934), Ron Dennis (1947), Thomas Lipton (1848), David Icke (1952), and Vidal Sassoon (1928).
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 2
1808 - 1892
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 3
1950 - Present
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 4
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 5
1942 - 2021
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 6
1862 - 1937
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 7
1895 - 1986
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 8
1945 - 2021
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 9
1934 - 1967
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 10
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 11
1848 - 1931
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 12
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 13
1928 - 2012
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 14