Top fifty #9s in football history.

According to Guerin Sportivo.

1. Alfredo Di Stéfano [1926]
2. Ronaldo Fenômeno [1976]
3. Gerd Müller [1945]
4. Marco van Basten [1964]
5. Lionel Messi [1987]
6. Gunnar Nordahl [1921]
7. Silvio Piola [1913]
8. Arthur Friedenreich [1892]
9. Giuseppe Meazza [1910]
10. Gabriel Batistuta [1969]
11. Johan Cruyff [1947]
12. Romário [1966]
13. Matthias Sindelar [1903]
14. Uwe Seeler [1936]
15. José Altafini [1938]
16. Paolo Rossi [1956]
17. Just Fontaine [1933]
18. Leônidas da Silva [1913]
19. Bobby Charlton [1937]
20. Ademir Marques [1922]
21. Franz "Bimbo" Binder [1911]
22. Jozef Bican [1913]
23. Pedro Petrone [1905]
24. William "Dixie" Dean [1907]
25. Arsenio Erico [1915]
26. Gary Lineker [1960]
27. Hugo Sánchez [1958]
28. Ferenc Deák [1922]
29. John Charles [1931]
30. Angelo Schiavio [1905]
31. Zlatan Ibrahimovic [1981]
32. Raymond Braine [1907]
33. Andriy Shevchenko [1976]
34. José Piendibene [1890]
35. Didier Drogba [1978]
36. Flórián Albert [1941]
37. Steve Bloomer [1874]
38. Hans Krankl [1953]
39. Robin van Persie [1983]
40. Christian Vieri [1973]
41. Ruud van Nistelrooy [1976]
42. Alan Shearer [1970]
43. Nándor Hidegkuti [1922]
44. Julio Libonatti [1901]
45. Telmo Zarra [1921]
46. George Weah [1966]
47. Edmund Cohen [1914]
48. Adolfo Pedernera [1918]
49. Włodzimierz "Włodek" Lubański [1947]
50. Luis Artime [1938]

Per birth date:
1980s : 3
1970s : 6
1960s : 5
1950s : 3
1940s : 4
1930s : 6
1920s : 6
1910s : 8
1900s : 6
1890s : 2
1880s : -
1870s : 1

Per nationality:
6 : Argentina, Brazil
5 : England
4 : Holland, Austria
3 : (West) Germany, Hungary
2 : Sweden, Uruguay