SOCCER PLAYER

Dixie Dean

1907 - 1980

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William Ralph "Dixie" Dean (22 January 1907 – 1 March 1980) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Dean holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season in top-flight English football, with 60. He is regarded as one of the greatest centre forwards of all time and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002. Born in Birkenhead, he began his career at his hometown club Tranmere Rovers, before moving on to Everton, the club he had supported as a child. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dixie Dean is the 1,147th most popular soccer player (down from 786th in 2019), the 2,270th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,667th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Dixie Dean ranks 1,147 out of 21,273. Before him are Ludovic Giuly, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Lucas Vázquez, Ichiji Otani, Haruhisa Hasegawa, and Franky Vercauteren. After him are Gerhard Hanappi, Ángel Romano, Ali Daei, Federico Valverde, Míchel Salgado, and Herbert Erhardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Dixie Dean ranks 152. Before him are Violette Leduc, Parvin E'tesami, Varian Fry, Anthony Blunt, Viktoria Brezhneva, and Mihail Sebastian. After him are Volmari Iso-Hollo, Ita Rina, Isaac Deutscher, Lev Oborin, Sven Andersson, and Frederick Copleston. Among people deceased in 1980, Dixie Dean ranks 119. Before him are Pietro Nenni, Erich Hückel, Hiroshi Inagaki, Leopold Kielholz, Hellmuth Walter, and Ahmad Shukeiri. After him are Gerhard Hanappi, Boun Oum, Justas Paleckis, Gastone Nencini, Rosa Albach-Retty, and David Janssen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 2,270 out of 8,785. Before him are Stephen Morris (1957), Wilfred Owen (1893), Erskine Childers (1870), Norman Lamont (1942), Nell Gwyn (1650), and Branwell Brontë (1817). After him are George Herbert (1593), Arthur Percival (1887), David Knopfler (1952), Robert Liston (1794), Jim Lea (1949), and Marina Diamandis (1985).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Dixie Dean ranks 73. Before him are Harry Gregg (1932), Alan Smith (1962), Andy Gray (1955), Bobby Smith (1933), David Seaman (1963), and Jimmy Jones (1928). After him are Bert Williams (1920), Bob Wilson (1941), Roger Hunt (1938), Bobby Collins (1931), Roger Byrne (1929), and Peter Crouch (1981).

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