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Asa Griggs Candler

1851 - 1929

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Asa Griggs Candler Sr. (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a major company.Prominent among civic leaders of Atlanta, Candler was elected and served as the 41st mayor of the city, from 1916 to 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asa Griggs Candler has received more than 1,320,071 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Asa Griggs Candler is the 143rd most popular businessperson (up from 174th in 2019), the 1,585th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,912th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Asa Griggs Candler has had the most page views in the with 147,977 views, followed by Spanish (25,890), and German (14,443). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (81.51%), Egyptian Arabic (72.41%), and Russian (36.12%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Asa Griggs Candler ranks 143 out of 847. Before him are Lee Kun-hee, Alisher Usmanov, Phil Knight, Elizabeth Arden, Johann Friedrich Böttger, and Masayoshi Son. After him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Joe Weider, Eugène Schueller, Theodor de Bry, and Lee Iacocca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Asa Griggs Candler ranks 21. Before him are Martinus Beijerinck, Adolf von Harnack, Arne Garborg, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich von Wieser, and Vincent d'Indy. After him are Knut Wicksell, Émile Boirac, Alexander, Prince of Orange, Bernardino Machado, Charles Dupuy, and George Francis FitzGerald. Among people deceased in 1929, Asa Griggs Candler ranks 32. Before him are Arthur Scherbius, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Prince Henry of Prussia, Thomas Burke, Richard Réti, and Stepa Stepanović. After him are Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Liang Qichao, Tanaka Giichi, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Oldfield Thomas, and La Goulue.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Asa Griggs Candler ranks 1,585 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark Harmon (1951), Walter Gilbert (1932), Jessica Chastain (1977), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Roger B. Chaffee (1935), and John Robert Schrieffer (1931). After him are Brad Dourif (1950), Stan Smith (1946), Ma Barker (1873), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Sojourner Truth (1797), and Henry L. Stimson (1867).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Asa Griggs Candler ranks 46. Before him are William Boeing (1881), Madam C. J. Walker (1867), Sam Walton (1918), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Larry Flynt (1942), and Phil Knight (1938). After him are John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Lee Iacocca (1924), Henry Ford II (1917), Malcolm Glazer (1928), Johnny Kitagawa (1931), and Jack Daniel (1850).

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