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Ray Reardon

1932 - 2024

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Raymond Reardon (8 October 1932 – 19 July 2024) was a Welsh professional snooker player who dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning the World Snooker Championship six times and claiming more than a dozen other professional titles. Due to his dark widow's peak and prominent eye teeth, he was nicknamed "Dracula". Until his mid-thirties, Reardon worked as a coal miner and then as a police officer while pursuing snooker at an amateur level. His titles during this era included six consecutive Welsh Amateur Championships from 1950 to 1955 and the English Amateur Championship in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Ray Reardon is the 10th most popular snooker (down from 9th in 2024), the 3,713th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,908th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Snooker.

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Among SNOOKERS

Among snookers, Ray Reardon ranks 10 out of 67. Before him are Paul Hunter, Shaun Murphy, Alex Higgins, Ali Carter, Steve Davis, and Terry Griffiths. After him are Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White, Mark Williams, Mark Selby, Fred Davis, and Dennis Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Ray Reardon ranks 337. Before him are Marc Fumaroli, Frank Beyer, Billy Evans, Marcia Neugebauer, Richard Lugar, and Solomon W. Golomb. After him are René Bliard, Charles W. Misner, Raymond Kaelbel, Richard Mulligan, Elaine May, and Günter Sawitzki. Among people deceased in 2024, Ray Reardon ranks 345. Before him are Michael Ruse, Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, Ron Ely, Ivan Charota, Eliyahu Rips, Franciszek Smuda, Francisco Jara, and Terry Griffiths. After him are John Bruton, Iryna Farion, Takayuki Kubota, and Karin Baal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ray Reardon ranks 3,714 out of 8,785. Before him are John Steel (1941), Vic Buckingham (1915), Alicia Markova (1910), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), David Frost (1939), and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694). After him are Havergal Brian (1876), Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745), John Marshall (1876), Tyson Fury (1988), Karim Ahmad Khan (1970), and John Mayhew (1947).

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Among SNOOKERS In United Kingdom

Among snookers born in United Kingdom, Ray Reardon ranks 9. Before him are Paul Hunter (1978), Shaun Murphy (1982), Alex Higgins (1949), Ali Carter (1979), Steve Davis (1957), and Terry Griffiths (1947). After him are Stephen Hendry (1969), Jimmy White (1962), Mark Williams (1975), Mark Selby (1983), Fred Davis (1913), and Dennis Taylor (1949).

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