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Jimmy McGrory

1904 - 1982

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James Edward McGrory (26 April 1904 – 20 October 1982) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic, Clydebank and Scotland as a forward. He later managed Kilmarnock and Celtic. McGrory is the all-time leading goalscorer in top-flight British football, with a total of 550 goals in 547 competitive first-team games at club and international level. A legendary figure within Celtic's history, he played for the club for 15 years between 1922 and 1937 (aside from the majority of the 1923–24 season which was spent on loan at fellow Division One side Clydebank), and is Celtic's top scorer of all time with 522 goals from 501 games and holds their record for the most goals in a season, with 62 goals from 46 games in the 1927–28 season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jimmy McGrory is the 2,611th most popular soccer player (down from 2,087th in 2019), the 3,565th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,960th in 2019) and the 161st most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among soccer players, Jimmy McGrory ranks 2,611 out of 21,273. Before him are Guillermo Amor, Iuliu Bodola, Cosmin Contra, Jupp Kapellmann, Antonio Campolo, and José Ramón Alexanko. After him are Costinha, Félix Sesúmaga, Albert Ferrer, Sergi Roberto, Adrián Escudero, and Ad-Diba.

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Among people born in 1904, Jimmy McGrory ranks 231. Before him are Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Attila Petschauer, Chūhei Nambu, Yves Giraud-Cabantous, Tita Merello, and J. R. D. Tata. After him are Käthe von Nagy, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Erwin Komenda, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gregg Toland, and Josef Pieper. Among people deceased in 1982, Jimmy McGrory ranks 187. Before him are Mirabehn, Marie Rambert, Renzo Rossellini, Marie Braun, Palden Thondup Namgyal, and Ngaio Marsh. After him are Firaq Gorakhpuri, Yuen Ren Chao, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Sonny Stitt, Fernando Lamas, and Leonid Spirin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jimmy McGrory ranks 3,566 out of 8,785. Before him are David Cox (1924), Michael Moran (1948), George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923), Anohni (1971), Tina Charles (1954), and Donald Watson (1910). After him are Anne Bradstreet (1612), Thomas Moran (1837), Martin McDonagh (1970), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), and Amanda Abbington (1974).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jimmy McGrory ranks 161. Before him are Andrew Johnson (1981), Joe Fagan (1921), Jimmy Murray (1933), Danny Rose (1990), Fred Martin (1929), and Ted Drake (1912). After him are Stuart McCall (1964), Fred Pentland (1883), Jimmy Ross (1866), Ramón Zabalo (1910), Ron Atkinson (1939), and Nat Lofthouse (1925).

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