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Alex Ferguson

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Also known as Alexander Chapman Ferguson, Sir Alex Ferguson

Scottish association football manager and player

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Alexander Chapman Ferguson, also known as Alex Ferguson or Fergie, is a former Scottish association football player and coach. Born in Govan, Glasgow, in 1941, he played as a forward for teams including Ayr United, St Johnstone, Dunfermline Athletic, and Rangers. He represented Scotland in the UEFA Champions League. Ferguson has also worked as an autobiographer and writer, with works such as *Football Heroes* and *Managing My Life*.

He holds United Kingdom citizenship and speaks English. His honors include being a Knight Bachelor, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is the father of Darren Ferguson.

Synthesized by Vinony from 46 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
51

Top works

  • Football Heroes (Digital Download)
  • Fields of Stone
  • Most Peculiar Hotel
  • Greatest One on Earth
  • Managing My Life

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Film & TV

Acting · Glasgow, Scotland

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time and has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football. Ferguson is often credited for valuing youth during his time with Manchester United,…

Known for

  • Cantona — Self2026
  • Schmeichel — Self2025
  • Joe the First2025
  • Joe the First — Self2025
  • Saipan — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Sir Alex — Self2025
  • Schmeichel — self2025
  • Rooney 2004: World At His Feet — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Sir Alex — Self2024
  • 99 — Self2024

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1928-05-04
Active to
2006-08-24
bebophard bopjazzjazz fusionpost-bop

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,890
Total plays
15,504

Tags

neofolkexperimentalsynthpopfolkdark folk

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,656x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,548x

  3. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

    · 2017 · cited 32,060x

  4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    · 2015 · cited 23,789x

  5. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,297x

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Quotes

  • “Sometimes we can get too emotional as a club with things that are happening but we are both of a common denominator; we don't want the club to be in anyone else's hands. That is the way that the club stands with that. I support that.”
  • “Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.”
  • “That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
_Retired Soccer
Position
Forward
Nationality
Scotland

via TheSportsDB

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a Scottish former professional football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, having won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football. Ferguson is often credited for valuing youth during his time at Manchester United, particularly in the 1990s with the "Class of '92", who contributed to making the club one of the most successful in the world.

Ferguson played as a forward for several Scottish clubs, including Dunfermline Athletic and Rangers, and was a Scottish international, earning four caps. While playing for Dunfermline, he was the top goalscorer in the Scottish league during the 1965–66 season. Towards the end of his playing career, he also worked as a coach, then started his managerial career with East Stirlingshire and St Mirren. Ferguson then enjoyed a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen, winning three Scottish league championships, four Scottish Cups and both the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in 1983. He briefly managed Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, taking the team to the 1986 World Cup.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alex Ferguson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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