The Most Famous

BUSINESSPEOPLE from Qatar

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This page contains a list of the greatest Qatari Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 847 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Qatar. This makes Qatar the birth place of the 56th most number of Businesspeople behind United Arab Emirates, and Romania.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Qatari Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Qatari Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Mohammed bin Hammam (b. 1949)

With an HPI of 51.34, Mohammed bin Hammam is the most famous Qatari Businessperson.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Mohammed bin Hammam (Arabic: محمد بن همّام; born 8 May 1949) is a Qatari former football administrator. He was president of the Asian Football Confederation from 2002 to 2011, and a member of FIFA's 24-man executive committee from 1996 to 2011. On 23 July 2011, Bin Hammam was banned for life from all FIFA and football-related activities by an action of the FIFA Ethics Committee. Bin Hammam challenged this sanction in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the ban was subsequently annulled on 19 July 2012 due to lack of sufficient evidence. However, just 5 months later in December 2012, FIFA handed bin Hammam a second life ban from football after "conflicts of interest" were identified in his role as president of the AFC. He was the subject of an exposé published by the British newspaper the Sunday Times in June 2014. The newspaper published leaked email documents which showed that bin Hammam had paid members of other nations' Football Associations in the run up to his FIFA presidential election campaign and prior to the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids decision that took place in December 2010.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Qatari businesspeople born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Qatari businesspeople include Mohammed bin Hammam.

Living Qatari Businesspeople

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