SOCCER PLAYER

Tony Dunne

1941 - 2020

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Anthony Peter Dunne (24 July 1941 – 8 June 2020) was an Irish footballer who played as a left-back. Born in Dublin, he began his career with youth side Stella Maris before signing for Drumcondra-based Shelbourne, with whom he won the FAI Cup in his second year in the senior team in 1960. That year, he moved to England to play for Manchester United, for whom he made more than 500 appearances in 13 years, winning the First Division in 1965 and 1967, the FA Cup in 1963 and the European Cup in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Dunne has received more than 214,369 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Tony Dunne is the 4,622nd most popular soccer player (down from 3,940th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 280th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Irish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

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  • 51.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Tony Dunne ranks 4,622 out of 21,273. Before him are Heinz Wewers, Sergio Vázquez, Aleksandar Atanacković, Verner Lička, Kazuaki Nagasawa, and Frits Kuipers. After him are Otávio Edmilson da Silva Monteiro, Enric Gensana, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Gabriel Núñez, Merih Demiral, and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Tony Dunne ranks 538. Before him are Péter Balázs, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Michael Howard, Kim Eui-tae, Oja Kodar, and Monika Maron. After him are Horst Meyer, Marty Riessen, Mária Gulácsy, Luigi Ferrando, Miroslav Verner, and Irma Thomas. Among people deceased in 2020, Tony Dunne ranks 591. Before him are Lynn Harrell, Hartwig Gauder, Pelle Svensson, Rajko Đurić, Óscar Chávez, and Gérard Mulumba Kalemba. After him are Grant Imahara, Charlie Daniels, Elsa Joubert, Fritz d'Orey, Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, and Horst Meyer.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Tony Dunne ranks 285 out of 549. Before him are George Salmon (1819), Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), Colum McCann (1965), John A. Costello (1891), Margaret Mazzantini (1961), and Peter Sutherland (1946). After him are Charlie McGettigan (1950), Richard Mulcahy (1886), William Stokes (1804), Michael McElhatton (1963), Stephen Gately (1976), and Liam O'Flaherty (1896).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ireland

Among soccer players born in Ireland, Tony Dunne ranks 10. Before him are Patrick O'Connell (1887), Arthur Johnson (1879), Billy Whelan (1935), Liam Brady (1956), John O'Shea (1981), and Caoimhín Kelleher (1998). After him are Denis Irwin (1965), John McKenna (1855), Frank O'Farrell (1927), Johnny Giles (1940), Damien Duff (1979), and Johnny Carey (1919).

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