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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 364,779 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). B. C. Forbes is the 291st most popular businessperson (down from 264th in 2019), the 1,987th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,023rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Businessperson.

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  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, B. C. Forbes ranks 291 out of 601. Before him are Arnold Rothstein, Robert Monroe, David Stern, François-Henri Pinault, Chuck Feeney, and Lazare Ponticelli. After him are Edward Colston, Jimmy Lai, Colonel Tom Parker, Ken Aston, Serge Dassault, and Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, B. C. Forbes ranks 96. Before him are Begum Rokeya, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Tudor Arghezi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Leonard Woolf, and Alfred J. Lotka. After him are Georg von Trapp, Johannes Aavik, Louis Charles Breguet, Zequinha de Abreu, Eugen Slutsky, and Mirza Kuchik Khan. Among people deceased in 1954, B. C. Forbes ranks 64. Before him are Emil Leon Post, M. N. Roy, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Thành Thái, Franz Neumann, and Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster. After him are Henri Laurens, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Jacob Tullin Thams, Joachim Lemelsen, Hugo Eckener, and Rudolf Beran.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, B. C. Forbes ranks 1,987 out of 7,765. Before him are Leonard Woolf (1880), Rachel Kempson (1910), Christine Keeler (1942), Freddie Highmore (1992), Steve Winwood (1948), and Phil Taylor (1954). After him are John Stevens Henslow (1796), Madge Syers (1881), Rick Wakeman (1949), John Needham (1713), William Hartnell (1908), and John Michell (1724).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, B. C. Forbes ranks 16. Before him are Brian Epstein (1934), Ron Dennis (1947), Thomas Lipton (1848), David Icke (1952), Vidal Sassoon (1928), and David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961). After him are Edward Colston (1636), Ken Aston (1915), Mark Thatcher (1953), Edward Cave (1691), Alfred Edwards (1850), and Henry Cole (1808).

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