SOCCER PLAYER

Yoshio Furukawa

1934 - Today

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Yoshio Furukawa (古川 好男, Furukawa Yoshio, born July 5, 1934) is a former Japanese football player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshio Furukawa has received more than 9,165 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 52 in 2019). Yoshio Furukawa is the 401st most popular soccer player (up from 619th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 633rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Yoshio Furukawa is most famous for his work in the field of electrochemistry. Furukawa is the inventor of the fuel cell, which is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.2k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 21.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 401 out of 21,273. Before him are Ferdinand Daučík, Shigeo Sugimoto, Edinson Cavani, Pedro Petrone, Wim Suurbier, and Ladislao Mazurkiewicz. After him are Bob Paisley, Ernst Wilimowski, Ottmar Walter, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Eden Hazard, and Gyula Zsengellér.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 92. Before him are Kenny Baker, Per Olov Enquist, Anton Geesink, Armi Kuusela, Yasuo Takamori, and Robert Moog. After him are Rossana Podestà, Allen Carr, Ornella Vanoni, Miguel de la Madrid, Clive Granger, and Victor French.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 393 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshirō Mori (1937), Hōjō Masako (1156), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), and Shigeo Sugimoto (1926). After him are Yukiya Amano (1947), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Tokugawa Ienari (1773), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Emperor Juntoku (1197), and Ono no Komachi (825).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 35. Before him are Ko Takamoro (1907), Masahiro Hamazaki (1940), Usaburo Hidaka (null), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), and Shigeo Sugimoto (1926). After him are Yoshimatsu Oyama (null), Saizo Saito (1908), Seishiro Shimatani (1938), Haruo Arima (null), Michiyo Taki (null), and Masuzo Madono (null).

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