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Angus Ogilvy

1928 - 2004

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Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy (14 September 1928 – 26 December 2004) was a British businessman. He is best known as the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Ogilvy is also remembered for his role in a business scandal, known as the Lonrho affair, involving the breaking of sanctions against Rhodesia during the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angus Ogilvy has received more than 902,817 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Angus Ogilvy is the 427th most popular businessperson, the 2,846th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 28th most popular British Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Angus Ogilvy ranks 427 out of 847. Before him are Jim Marshall, Maurice Farman, Vincent J. McMahon, Jim Ratcliffe, Jorge Mendes, and Guy Laliberté. After him are Ernest Oppenheimer, Eli Lilly, Suge Knight, Vicente Calderón, Peter Lynch, and Jawed Karim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Angus Ogilvy ranks 327. Before him are Karl Josef Becker, Paul Arizin, Ann Blyth, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Daly, and Giuseppe Pinelli. After him are Tzannis Tzannetakis, Carl Dahlhaus, Robert Dienst, Irena Veisaitė, Đorđe Martinović incident, and Marian Seldes. Among people deceased in 2004, Angus Ogilvy ranks 171. Before him are Veríssimo Correia Seabra, Torsten Hägerstrand, Gennadi Strekalov, Tony Randall, Agnes Martin, and Jacek Kuroń. After him are Joan Aiken, Ljubiša Spajić, Virginia Grey, Bror Mellberg, Rodney Dangerfield, and Albert Brülls.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Angus Ogilvy ranks 2,846 out of 8,785. Before him are Adrian Paul (1959), Shirley Eaton (1937), Jean Marsh (1934), William Elford Leach (1791), Robin Milner (1934), and Colin Clark (1905). After him are James Allen (1864), Patsy Kensit (1968), Joan Aiken (1924), Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), and Ian Paisley (1926).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Angus Ogilvy ranks 28. Before him are Henry Cole (1808), Ken Aston (1915), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Edward Colston (1636), Jim Marshall (1923), and Jim Ratcliffe (1952). After him are Fred Karno (1866), Neil Aspinall (1941), Andrew Planche (1727), John Houlding (1833), John Henry Davies (1864), and Ian Livingstone (1949).

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