Rarest Winner of the Ballon D'or — All 48 Answers Ranked by Rarity

48 answers are accepted for “Name a winner of the Ballon d'Or”. Luis Suárez is the rarest winner of the Ballon d'or in this ranking, with 17,434 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Josef Masopust is the second-rarest with 52,148 monthly Wikipedia views, 2.99× the figure for Luis Suárez. Cristiano Ronaldo is the most common winner of the Ballon d'or in this ranking, with 14,910,758 monthly Wikipedia views, 855.3× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 48 answers: 73,640,154. Luis Suárez is under 0.1% of that total. 10 answers are Epic or Legendary: Luis Suárez (Legendary), Josef Masopust (Legendary), Flórián Albert (Legendary), and 7 more.

Quick answer

Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

48 answers to “Name a winner of the Ballon d'Or”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank	Answer	Tier	Rarity	Monthly Wikipedia views
1	Luis Suárez on Wikipedia	Legendary	1.000	17,434
2	Josef Masopust on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.979	52,148
3	Flórián Albert on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.957	57,058
4	Omar Sívori on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.936	66,437
5	Allan Simonsen on Wikipedia	Epic	0.915	75,409
6	Igor Belanov on Wikipedia	Epic	0.894	78,816
7	Gianni Rivera on Wikipedia	Epic	0.872	93,409
8	Oleg Blokhin on Wikipedia	Epic	0.851	102,392
9	Raymond Kopa on Wikipedia	Epic	0.830	118,141
10	Matthias Sammer on Wikipedia	Epic	0.809	150,715
11	Jean-Pierre Papin on Wikipedia	Rare	0.787	193,532
12	Denis Law on Wikipedia	Rare	0.766	242,490
13	Stanley Matthews on Wikipedia	Rare	0.745	248,632
14	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on Wikipedia	Rare	0.723	270,767
15	Paolo Rossi on Wikipedia	Rare	0.702	297,237
16	Pavel Nedvěd on Wikipedia	Rare	0.681	306,456
17	Hristo Stoichkov on Wikipedia	Rare	0.660	362,786
18	Lothar Matthäus on Wikipedia	Rare	0.638	467,072
19	Eusébio on Wikipedia	Rare	0.617	489,827
20	Andriy Shevchenko on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.596	505,941
21	Gerd Müller on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.574	514,393
22	Lev Yashin on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.553	537,106
23	Alfredo Di Stéfano on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.532	545,992
24	Michel Platini on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.511	549,971
25	Ruud Gullit on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.489	558,597
26	Marco van Basten on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.468	571,275
27	Bobby Charlton on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.447	625,834
28	Franz Beckenbauer on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.426	672,193
29	Rodri on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.404	676,985
30	Rivaldo on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.383	680,865
31	Luís Figo on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.362	719,700
32	Fabio Cannavaro on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.340	725,395
33	Roberto Baggio on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.319	742,060
34	George Weah on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.298	826,137
35	George Best on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.277	863,410
36	Johan Cruyff on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.255	1,139,896
37	Michael Owen on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.234	1,164,059
38	Kaká on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.213	1,332,994
39	Karim Benzema on Wikipedia	Common	0.191	1,601,318
40	Kevin Keegan on Wikipedia	Common	0.170	2,354,330
41	Luka Modrić on Wikipedia	Common	0.149	2,530,538
42	Ousmane Dembélé on Wikipedia	Common	0.128	2,987,998
43	Ronaldinho on Wikipedia	Common	0.106	3,218,779
44	Zinedine Zidane on Wikipedia	Common	0.085	3,471,785
45	Ronaldo on Wikipedia	Common	0.064	3,474,513
46	Harry Kane on Wikipedia	Common	0.043	6,627,321
47	Lionel Messi on Wikipedia	Common	0.021	14,819,253
48	Cristiano Ronaldo on Wikipedia	Common	0.000	14,910,758

FAQ

What is the rarest winner of the Ballon d'or?

Luis Suárez is the rarest winner of the Ballon d'or in this ranking, with 17,434 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many winner of the Ballon d'ors are there?

There are 48 winner of the Ballon d'ors in this ranking, from Luis Suárez (rarest) to Cristiano Ronaldo (most common).

What is the most common winner of the Ballon d'or?

Cristiano Ronaldo is the most common winner of the Ballon d'or in this ranking, with 14,910,758 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.