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William McGregor

1846 - 1911

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William McGregor (13 April 1846 – 20 December 1911) was a Scottish association football administrator in the Victorian era who was the founder of the Football League (now English Football League), the first organised association football league in the world. After moving from Perthshire to Birmingham to set up business as a draper, McGregor became involved with local football club Aston Villa, which he helped to establish as one of the leading teams in England. He served the club for over 20 years in various capacities, including president, director and chairman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William McGregor has received more than 10,522 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William McGregor is the 532nd most popular businessperson (down from 496th in 2019), the 3,802nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,737th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 47.13

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.58

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  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, William McGregor ranks 532 out of 847. Before him are Gautam Adani, Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Steve Forbes, Boris Hagelin, Jamie Dimon, and Ben Bradlee. After him are James Smith McDonnell, Joe Sutter, Richard Hilton, David Richards, Sam Panopoulos, and Jay Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, William McGregor ranks 101. Before him are Kate Greenaway, Karol Olszewski, Pieter Cort van der Linden, Elizabeth Thompson, Arsène Darmesteter, and László Paál. After him are Max Fürbringer, Rose Cleveland, Eugen Baumann, Marco Aurelio Soto, Benigno Ferreira, and Nikolay Umov. Among people deceased in 1911, William McGregor ranks 77. Before him are Eugene Burton Ely, Heinrich Hofmann, Dragan Tsankov, José López Domínguez, Carl Folcker, and Dezső Bánffy. After him are Mahboob Ali Khan, Vassily Maximov, Marc Delafontaine, Pedro Paterno, Albert Ladenburg, and Georg Hilmar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William McGregor ranks 3,802 out of 8,785. Before him are Chris Irwin (1942), Elizabeth Spriggs (1929), Paul Kossoff (1950), George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866), Allan Clarke (1942), and Wallace Ford (1898). After him are May Sutton (1886), Craig Armstrong (1959), John Higgins (1975), Ron Harris (1944), Cecil Griffiths (1900), and Katherine Waterston (1980).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, William McGregor ranks 37. Before him are Andrew Planche (1727), John Houlding (1833), John Henry Davies (1864), Ian Livingstone (1949), Christopher O'Neill (1974), and Isabella Beeton (1836). After him are David Richards (1952), George Williams (1821), Stafford Beer (1926), Howard Stringer (1942), Anita Roddick (1942), and Alan Sugar (1947).

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