SOCCER PLAYER

Tom Finney

1922 - 2014

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Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England's greatest-ever players. He was noted for his loyalty to Preston, for whom he made 433 Football League and 39 FA Cup appearances, scoring a total of 210 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Finney has received more than 602,829 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Tom Finney is the 1,627th most popular soccer player (down from 1,613th in 2019), the 2,577th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,859th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Tom Finney ranks 1,627 out of 21,273. Before him are Bryan Robson, Ryuichi Sugiyama, Reinhard Libuda, Paulinho, Ruy Ramos, and Tomáš Skuhravý. After him are Johnny Hansen, Gunnar Andersson, Heinz Kwiatkowski, Juan Arza, Baltazar, and Hiroji Imamura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Tom Finney ranks 230. Before him are Martin Gray, Bhimsen Joshi, Michel Auclair, Farrokhroo Parsa, Steven Hill, and Virgilio Noè. After him are Herman Kahn, Bob Anderson, Võ Văn Kiệt, Mariano Gonzalvo, Carmen McRae, and Marlyn Meltzer. Among people deceased in 2014, Tom Finney ranks 195. Before him are Martha Hyer, Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, William Guarnere, Josep Maria Subirachs, Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, and Andréa Parisy. After him are Richard Dürr, Joel Camargo, Samih al-Qasim, Stanisław Mikulski, Louise Brough, and György Lázár.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tom Finney ranks 2,577 out of 8,785. Before him are I. A. Richards (1893), Simon Phillips (1957), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), Flora Finch (1867), Edmund Gwenn (1877), and Patrick Gordon (1635). After him are Paul Bernays (1888), Paul Nurse (1949), Jon Finch (1942), Jack Greenwell (1884), Morris Travers (1872), and Douglas Bader (1910).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Tom Finney ranks 72. Before him are David Seaman (1963), Martin Peters (1943), Colin Bell (1946), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), and Bryan Robson (1957). After him are Jack Greenwell (1884), Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847), Gary Neville (1975), Ashley Cole (1980), Billy Meredith (1874), and Steve Perryman (1951).

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