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Bill Hewlett

1913 - 2001

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William Redington Hewlett ( HEW-lit; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Hewlett has received more than 671,126 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Bill Hewlett is the 258th most popular businessperson (down from 200th in 2019), the 2,934th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,467th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 54.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Bill Hewlett ranks 258 out of 601Before him are Ivy Lee, Hans Riegel, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Frits Philips, Sergei Shchukin, and Francesco Baracca. After him are Paul Elvstrøm, Arkady Rotenberg, Joseph Oller, Ratan Tata, Rex Tillerson, and Jack Tramiel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Bill Hewlett ranks 118Before him are Lucien Goldmann, Elisaveta Bykova, Georgy Flyorov, Véra Clouzot, Nikolai Amosov, and Tikhon Khrennikov. After him are Waldemar de Brito, Mouloud Feraoun, William Tolbert, Eiji Toyoda, Charles Berlitz, and Malietoa Tanumafili II. Among people deceased in 2001, Bill Hewlett ranks 89Before him are Jaroslav Drobný, Renato Carosone, Michel Marcel Navratil, Indro Montanelli, Juan Bosch, and Richard Wurmbrand. After him are Hiroshi Teshigahara, Alexei Tupolev, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Mauro Bolognini, and Mortimer J. Adler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Hewlett ranks 2,934 out of 18,182Before him are Don Norman (1935), Kurtwood Smith (1943), Jonathan Franzen (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Jerry Brudos (1939), and Linda Nochlin (1931). After him are Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Dolores Costello (1903), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Ted Williams (1918), June Allyson (1917), and Terry Goodkind (1948).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Bill Hewlett ranks 85Before him are Steve Fossett (1944), Katharine Graham (1917), David Packard (1912), John C. Bogle (1929), Kirk Kerkorian (1917), and Ivy Lee (1877). After him are Rex Tillerson (1952), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Chris Gardner (1954), and Arnold Rothstein (1882).