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Bernie Madoff

1938 - 2021

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Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( MAY-dawf; April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business. Madoff founded a penny stock brokerage in 1960, which eventually grew into Bernard L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernie Madoff has received more than 12,903,708 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Bernie Madoff is the 45th most popular businessperson (down from 8th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from United States (down from 420th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Businessperson.

Bernie Madoff is most famous for being the mastermind behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his crimes.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Bernie Madoff ranks 45 out of 601. Before him are J. Paul Getty, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ettore Bugatti, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Soichiro Honda, and Robert Kiyosaki. After him are Ronald Wayne, Thomas Cook, Sergei Diaghilev, Joan Gamper, Dietrich Mateschitz, and Rudolf Dassler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Bernie Madoff ranks 29. Before him are Luis Aragonés, Rod Laver, Giuliano Gemma, Mireille Darc, Klaus Schwab, and Vladimir Vysotsky. After him are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liv Ullmann, Albert Fert, Abulfaz Elchibey, Heinz Fischer, and Jean Giraud. Among people deceased in 2021, Bernie Madoff ranks 20. Before him are Roh Tae-woo, Karolos Papoulias, Colin Powell, F. W. de Klerk, Raffaella Carrà, and Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein. After him are Betty White, Aaron T. Beck, Nathalie Delon, Wilbur Smith, Richard Rogers, and Sonny Chiba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernie Madoff ranks 485 out of 18,182. Before him are William S. Burroughs (1914), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Ellen G. White (1827), Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Richard Chamberlain (1934), and Chuck Jones (1912). After him are Glen Campbell (1936), John Coltrane (1926), David Copperfield (1956), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Prince (1958), and Crazy Horse (1840).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Bernie Madoff ranks 18. Before him are P. T. Barnum (1810), Steve Ballmer (1956), Hugh Hefner (1926), J. P. Morgan (1837), J. Paul Getty (1892), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947). After him are Ronald Wayne (1934), Robert Kardashian (1944), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), Martin Cooper (1928), Margaret Hamilton (1936), and Robert McNamara (1916).

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