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Arthur Guinness

1725 - 1803

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Arthur Guinness (c. 24 September 1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness beer, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Guinness has received more than 1,153,032 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Arthur Guinness is the 298th most popular businessperson (down from 273rd in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 93rd in 2019) and the most popular Irish Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Arthur Guinnesses by language

Over the past year Arthur Guinness has had the most page views in the with 157,319 views, followed by Russian (11,703), and German (7,805). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (69.55%), Basque (57.33%), and Egyptian Arabic (47.58%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Arthur Guinness ranks 298 out of 847. Before him are Albert Kahn, Arnon Milchan, John Cockerill, John DeLorean, Silvio Santos, and Mikimoto Kōkichi. After him are Douglas Tompkins, Frits Philips, Marc Rich, Paul Castellano, Ida Straus, and Edward Cave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Arthur Guinness ranks 18. Before him are Pyotr Rumyantsev, John Newton, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, George Mason, and Franz Moritz von Lacy. After him are Guillaume Le Gentil, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Johann Peter Beaulieu, Jean-Étienne Montucla, and Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1803, Arthur Guinness ranks 24. Before him are Samuel von Brukenthal, François Devienne, William Hamilton, Gottfried van Swieten, Anders Chydenius, and Nicolas Baudin. After him are Jean-François de La Harpe, Sylvain Maréchal, Maria Fortunata d'Este, Pōmare I, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, and Jean François de Saint-Lambert.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Arthur Guinness ranks 103 out of 549. Before him are John Flanagan (1873), Edward Mulhare (1923), Roy Keane (1971), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Millington Synge (1871), and Fiona Shaw (1958). After him are Constantine III of Scotland (971), William Brown (1777), Edward Bransfield (1785), John Boland (1870), Roger Casement (1864), and Richard Montgomery (1738).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Ireland

Among businesspeople born in Ireland, Arthur Guinness ranks 1. After him are Eddie Jordan (1948), Tim O'Reilly (1954), Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865), and Michael O'Leary (1961).

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