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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 9,809 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William McGregor is the 496th most popular businessperson (down from 415th in 2019), the 3,745th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,457th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, William McGregor ranks 496 out of 601Before him are Marcus Loew, Vijay Mallya, Ben Bradlee, Jared Kushner, Yuri Milner, and Ernest Oppenheimer. After him are Adam Silver, Clyde Cessna, Marc Faber, Earl Tupper, Fred Karno, and David Richards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, William McGregor ranks 95Before him are Alexander Karpinsky, Svatopluk Čech, László Paál, Elizabeth Thompson, Anna Katharine Green, and Karol Olszewski. After him are Nikolay Umov, Arsène Darmesteter, Björn Jónsson, Marco Aurelio Soto, Edward S. Holden, and Rose Cleveland. Among people deceased in 1911, William McGregor ranks 68Before him are Carrie Nation, Christian Lundeberg, Dragan Tsankov, W. S. Gilbert, Ernst Brenner, and Vassily Maximov. After him are Anton Josef Gruscha, Marc Delafontaine, Pedro Paterno, Mahboob Ali Khan, José López Domínguez, and Georg Hilmar.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William McGregor ranks 3,745 out of 7,765Before him are Jamie Carragher (1978), Justin Fashanu (1961), Anne Treisman (1935), John Braine (1922), Adolph Deutsch (1897), and Will Champion (1978). After him are Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Michael Rennie (1909), Piers Sellers (1955), Amy Macdonald (1987), William Powell Frith (1819), and William Tenn (1920).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, William McGregor ranks 31Before him are Jim Marshall (1923), John Houlding (1833), Neil Aspinall (1941), Andrew Planche (1727), Isabella Beeton (1836), and Anita Roddick (1942). After him are Fred Karno (1866), David Richards (1952), Christopher O'Neill (1974), Benjamin Vulliamy (1747), Allan Williams (1930), and Steve Jackson (1951).