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Albert Ballin

1857 - 1918

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Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest shipping company. Being the inventor of the concept of the cruise ship, he is known as the father of modern cruise ship travel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Ballin has received more than 133,996 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Ballin is the 343rd most popular businessperson (down from 301st in 2019), the 3,192nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,083rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Albert Ballin ranks 343 out of 601. Before him are Norio Ohga, Eddie Jordan, Lee Shau-kee, Tommy Mottola, Stefan Persson, and Alfred Edwards. After him are Jorge Mendes, David Sarnoff, Viktor Vekselberg, Mikhail Prokhorov, Jakob Nielsen, and Johanna Quandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Albert Ballin ranks 80. Before him are Joseph Larmor, Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Gabriela Zapolska, Stojan Protić, Louis Dollo, and Alfred Bruneau. After him are George Hendrik Breitner, Eva Bonnier, Henry Dudeney, Shibli Nomani, Uroš Predić, and Filippo Turati. Among people deceased in 1918, Albert Ballin ranks 110. Before him are Konstantin Jireček, Robbie Ross, George Mary Searle, Marianne Cope, Wilfred Owen, and Charles Wolf. After him are Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, William Hope Hodgson, Ali Aaltonen, Ulisse Dini, George Coșbuc, and Alexander Protopopov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Ballin ranks 3,192 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Percy Adlon (1935), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1633), Leonor Michaelis (1875), and Heinrich Kuhl (1797). After him are Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785), Paul Bader (1883), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Margitta Gummel (1941), Vincent Lübeck (1654), and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1918).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Albert Ballin ranks 37. Before him are Theo Albrecht (1922), Bertha Krupp (1886), Siegfried Bing (1838), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Peter Thiel (1967), and Herbert Hainer (1954). After him are Johanna Quandt (1926), Adolf Merckle (1934), Susanne Klatten (1962), Emil Rathenau (1838), Kim Dotcom (1974), and Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880).

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