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Bill Gates

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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect of the company. Gates was also its largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Gates has received more than 53,672,192 page views. His biography is available in 168 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 158 in 2019). Bill Gates is the 3rd most popular businessperson (down from 2nd in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from United States (down from 37th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Businessperson.

Bill Gates is most famous for co-founding Microsoft in 1975. He is one of the richest people in the world, and he has donated a lot of his money to charity.

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  • 54M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 168

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Bill Gates ranks 3 out of 847. Before him are Cecil Rhodes, and Howard Hughes. After him are Pierre de Coubertin, Oskar Schindler, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Sepp Blatter, Larry Ellison, John D. Rockefeller, Jeff Bezos, Vince McMahon, and Warren Buffett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Bill Gates ranks 2. Before him is Steve Jobs. After him are Bruce Willis, Nicolas Sarkozy, Rowan Atkinson, Michel Platini, Tim Berners-Lee, Jair Bolsonaro, Koji Tanaka, Kevin Costner, Alain Prost, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Gates ranks 65 out of 20,380. Before him are Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), John Wilkes Booth (1838), George W. Bush (1946), Bette Davis (1908), Marlon Brando (1924), and Stanley Kubrick (1928). After him are Danny DeVito (1944), James Stewart (1908), George H. W. Bush (1924), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Henry David Thoreau (1817), and Helen Keller (1880).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Bill Gates ranks 2. Before him are Howard Hughes (1905). After him are Larry Ellison (1944), John D. Rockefeller (1839), Jeff Bezos (1964), Vince McMahon (1945), Warren Buffett (1930), Tim Cook (1960), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), David Rockefeller (1915), Steve Ballmer (1956), and Colonel Sanders (1890).

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