1978 - Today
Yıldıray Baştürk (Turkish pronunciation: [jɯɫˈdɯˈɾaj baʃˈtyɾk], born 24 December 1978) is a retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Born in Germany, he was capped 49 times for the Turkey national football team, representing the team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup where they finished in third place. In the same year he also appeared for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yıldıray Baştürk has received more than 224,829 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yıldıray Baştürk is the 2,937th most popular soccer player (down from 2,926th in 2019), the 4,365th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,916th in 2019) and the 191st most popular German Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 2,937 out of 16,880. Before him are Hans Walzhofer, Nahum Stelmach, Giuseppe Giannini, George Yonashiro, Stuart McCall, and Egisto Pandolfini. After him are Kazuo Imanishi, Seydou Doumbia, Hector Goetinck, Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, Zoran Simović, and Jimmy Hogan.
1906 - Present
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 2,931
1936 - 1999
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 2,932
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 2,933
1950 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 2,934
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 2,935
1926 - 2019
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 2,936
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 2,937
1941 - Present
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 2,938
1987 - Present
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 2,939
1886 - 1943
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 2,940
1904 - 1973
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 2,941
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 2,942
1882 - 1974
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 2,943
Among people born in 1978, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 122. Before him are Daisuke Ono, Liya Kebede, Guy Berryman, Kim Ha-neul, Dennis Rommedahl, and Daniella Alonso. After him are Matthew Davis, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Joshua Jackson, Radek Štěpánek, Namkoong Min, and Erica Durance.
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 116
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 117
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 118
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 119
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 120
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 121
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 122
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 123
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 124
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 125
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 126
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.80
Rank: 127
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 128
Among people born in Germany, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 4,365 out of 6,142. Before him are Kevin Trapp (1990), Lou Bega (1975), Shantel (1968), Ralph Giordano (1923), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), and Wilhelm Baumann (1912). After him are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), Karl-Friedrich Haas (1931), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Wolfram Löwe (1945), and Wolfgang Dremmler (1954).
1990 - Present
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 4,359
1975 - Present
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 4,360
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 4,361
1923 - 2014
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 4,362
1910 - 1991
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 4,363
1912 - 1990
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 4,364
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 4,365
1927 - 2013
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 4,366
1926 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 4,367
1931 - 2021
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 4,368
1826 - 1886
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 4,369
1945 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 4,370
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 4,371
Among soccer players born in Germany, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 191. Before him are Bernd Nickel (1949), Dieter Herzog (1946), Fritz Herkenrath (1928), Hans Nowak (1937), Stefan Kießling (1984), and Kevin Trapp (1990). After him are Wolfram Löwe (1945), Wolfgang Dremmler (1954), Werner Krämer (1940), Paul Zielinski (1911), Ivan Klasnić (1980), and Hans Jakob (1908).
1949 - 2021
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 185
1946 - Present
HPI: 45.26
Rank: 186
1928 - 2016
HPI: 45.23
Rank: 187
1937 - 2012
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 188
1984 - Present
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 189
1990 - Present
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 190
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 191
1945 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 192
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 193
1940 - 2010
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 194
1911 - 1966
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 195
1980 - Present
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 196
1908 - 1994
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 197