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César Ritz

1850 - 1918

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César Ritz, born Cäsar Ritz (23 February 1850 – 26 October 1918), was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the Ritz and Carlton Hotels in London (the forerunners of the modern Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of César Ritz has received more than 674,017 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). César Ritz is the 118th most popular businessperson (up from 121st in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 106th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Businessperson.

César Ritz is most famous for being the founder of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, César Ritz ranks 118 out of 847. Before him are Ole Kirk Christiansen, Al-Waleed bin Talal, Chung Ju-yung, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, William Randolph Hearst, and Iwasaki Yatarō. After him are William Boeing, Madam C. J. Walker, Ivana Trump, Uli Hoeneß, François Pinault, and James Mayer de Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, César Ritz ranks 23. Before him are Lafcadio Hearn, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Besarion Jughashvili, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. After him are Sami Frashëri, Victoriano Huerta, Mikhail Chigorin, William Morris Davis, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, and Ivan Vazov. Among people deceased in 1918, César Ritz ranks 50. Before him are Aleksandr Lyapunov, Julius Wellhausen, Koloman Moser, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ivan Cankar, and John Bauer. After him are Daniel Burley Woolfall, Vasily Radlov, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Paul von Rennenkampf, Princess Anna of Prussia, and Victor Adler.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, César Ritz ranks 114 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Jost Bürgi (1552), and Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747). After him are Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jakob Steiner (1796), and Jacques Dubochet (1942).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, César Ritz ranks 6. Before him are Sepp Blatter (1936), Joan Gamper (1877), Aga Khan IV (1936), Gianni Infantino (1970), and Louis Chevrolet (1878). After him are Peter Sauber (1943), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), and Paul Sacher (1906).

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