Denis Law

Denis Law belongs to a generation I only know through grainy footage, yet his presence still leaps off the screen. A Ballon d'Or winner and Manchester United icon, he carried the swagger of a striker who genuinely loved scoring rather than merely doing a job. What I admire most is the boy-like joy in that raised-fist celebration; for all the records and the CBE, he never seemed to lose the simple thrill of the goal. His passing in 2025 closed a chapter, but figures like Law define what the sport felt like before it became an industry. A true original.

Name (English)

Denis Law

Name (Japanese)

デニス・ロー

Reading

でにす・ろー

Born

February 24, 1940 (age 86)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player

Awards & achievements

• Ballon d'Or
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Law
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233565

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.