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SOCCER PLAYER

Tommy Gemmell

1943 - 2017

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Thomas Gemmell (16 October 1943 – 2 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager. Although right-footed, he excelled as a left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. Gemmell is best known as one of the Celtic side who won the 1966–67 European Cup; he scored the first Celtic goal in the final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Gemmell has received more than 392,189 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Tommy Gemmell is the 5,996th most popular soccer player (down from 4,591st in 2019), the 5,592nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,715th in 2019) and the 322nd most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 390k

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  • 37.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Tommy Gemmell ranks 5,996 out of 16,880Before him are Luis Fernando Herrera, João Ricardo, Sebastián Eguren, Djibril Sidibé, Stephan Andersen, and Javi Navarro. After him are Benoît Costil, Kristine Lilly, Renato, Manu Trigueros, Cheick Diabaté, and Juan Pablo Carrizo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tommy Gemmell ranks 599Before him are Carolyn Schuler, Gianni Ambrosio, Charles Murray, Donald Kalpokas, Wendy Richard, and Kay Bailey Hutchison. After him are Jon McBride, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Mike Barrett, George Woods, Dick Van Arsdale, and Howard Wilkinson. Among people deceased in 2017, Tommy Gemmell ranks 559Before him are George Avakian, Milt Schmidt, Denis Johnson, Jim Bunning, Al Lawrence, and Maria Verónica Reina. After him are Frank Spellman, Bruce Forsyth, Bill Hougland, Donna Williams, Francine York, and Denis Voronenkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Gemmell ranks 5,592 out of 7,765Before him are Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1899), Dorothy Shirley (1939), Shashi Tharoor (1956), Stuart Christie (1946), Tom Burke (1981), and Mel Charles (1935). After him are Colin McGinn (1950), Robert Lindsay (1949), Charlotte Despard (1844), Sophie Wilson (1957), Nigel Havers (1951), and Samantha Power (1970).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Tommy Gemmell ranks 322Before him are Duncan Ferguson (1971), Laurie Hughes (1924), Lee Dixon (1964), Doug Livingstone (1898), Ben Foster (1983), and Mel Charles (1935). After him are Graham Potter (1975), Kevin Muscat (1973), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (1996), Ted Burgin (1927), Bill Slater (1927), and Adam Armstrong (1997).