1900 - 1978
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (3 November 1900 – 6 September 1978) was a German cobbler, inventor, member of the Nazi party, and entrepreneur who founded the German sportswear company Adidas. He was also the younger brother of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Dassler was an innovator in athletic shoe design and one of the early promoters who obtained endorsements from athletes to drive sales of his products. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Dassler has received more than 4,089,020 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Dassler is the 29th most popular businessperson (down from 19th in 2019), the 270th most popular biography from Germany (down from 184th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Businessperson.
Adolf Dassler is most famous for founding the company Adidas.
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Among businesspeople, Adolf Dassler ranks 29 out of 601. Before him are Carlos Slim, Ludwig Erhard, Amancio Ortega, Muhammad Yunus, Ray Kroc, and P. T. Barnum. After him are Jules Rimet, Andrew Carnegie, Steve Ballmer, Hugh Hefner, J. P. Morgan, and Guccio Gucci.
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 23
1897 - 1977
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 24
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 25
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 26
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 27
1810 - 1891
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 28
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 29
1873 - 1956
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 30
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 31
1956 - Present
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 32
1926 - 2017
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 33
1837 - 1913
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 34
1881 - 1953
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 35
Among people born in 1900, Adolf Dassler ranks 16. Before him are Hans Frank, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, Vasily Chuikov, and Margaret Mitchell. After him are Jacques Prévert, Dennis Gabor, Charles Francis Richter, Sándor Márai, Urho Kekkonen, and Hans Fritzsche. Among people deceased in 1978, Adolf Dassler ranks 10. Before him are Aram Khachaturian, Kurt Gödel, Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, and Giorgio de Chirico. After him are Mohammed Daoud Khan, Ramón Mercader, Margaret Mead, Manne Siegbahn, Anastas Mikoyan, and Jim Jones.
1900 - 1946
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 11
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 12
1900 - 1945
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 13
1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 14
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 15
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 16
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 17
1900 - 1979
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 18
1900 - 1985
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 19
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 20
1900 - 1986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 21
1900 - 1953
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 22
1903 - 1978
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 4
1906 - 1978
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 5
1916 - 1978
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 6
1929 - 1978
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 7
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 8
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 9
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 10
1909 - 1978
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 11
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 13
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 14
1895 - 1978
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 16
Among people born in Germany, Adolf Dassler ranks 270 out of 6,142. Before him are Pope Damasus II (1000), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Wim Wenders (1945), Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955), Max Scheler (1874), and Ferdinand I of Romania (1865). After him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710), Max von Laue (1879), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), Paul Heyse (1830), Max Horkheimer (1895), and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881).
1000 - 1048
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 264
1868 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 265
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 266
955 - 983
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 267
1874 - 1928
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 268
1865 - 1927
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 269
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 270
1710 - 1771
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 271
1879 - 1960
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 272
1691 - 1750
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 273
1830 - 1914
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 274
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 275
1881 - 1954
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 276
Among businesspeople born in Germany, Adolf Dassler ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Levi Strauss (1829), and Ludwig Erhard (1897). After him are Otto Frank (1889), Robert Bosch (1861), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Henri Nestlé (1814), Jakob Fugger (1459), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).
1838 - 1917
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 1
1829 - 1902
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 2
1897 - 1977
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 3
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 4
1889 - 1980
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 5
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 6
1898 - 1974
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 7
1814 - 1890
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 8
1459 - 1525
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 9
1816 - 1899
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 10
1849 - 1944
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 11
1777 - 1836
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 12