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B. C. Forbes

1880 - 1954

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Bertie Charles Forbes (; May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954) was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of B. C. Forbes has received more than 395,122 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). B. C. Forbes is the 338th most popular businessperson (down from 291st in 2019), the 2,241st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,982nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, B. C. Forbes ranks 338 out of 847. Before him are Edwin Drake, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Martin Winterkorn, Sundar Pichai, Viktor Vekselberg, and Timothy Dexter. After him are Lamine Diack, Max Manus, Chris Gardner, Evangelos Zappas, Arthur D. Levinson, and Lei Jun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, B. C. Forbes ranks 109. Before him are Fritz Bleyl, Tudor Arghezi, Frigyes Riesz, Lytton Strachey, Alfred J. Lotka, and Mirza Kuchik Khan. After him are Hans Hofmann, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, and Walter Hohmann. Among people deceased in 1954, B. C. Forbes ranks 78. Before him are Édouard Le Roy, M. N. Roy, Rudolf Beran, Machine Gun Kelly, Clara Westhoff, and Hugo Eckener. After him are Joachim Lemelsen, Saburō Kurusu, Hella Wuolijoki, Omer Nishani, Émile Mâle, and Samuel Jones.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, B. C. Forbes ranks 2,241 out of 8,785. Before him are Phil Jones (1992), Andrew Moray (1265), Siân Phillips (1933), Luke Howard (1772), Arthur Hughes (1832), and Robert Fisk (1946). After him are Ethel Muckelt (1885), James Harrington (1611), Mick Box (1947), William Ernest Henley (1849), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), and Dion Fortune (1890).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, B. C. Forbes ranks 19. Before him are Vidal Sassoon (1928), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), David Icke (1952), John Cockerill (1790), Edward Cave (1691), and Alfred Edwards (1850). After him are Thomas Blake Glover (1838), Mark Thatcher (1953), Henry Cole (1808), Ken Aston (1915), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), and Edward Colston (1636).

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