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Calouste Gulbenkian

1869 - 1955

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Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (, Western Armenian: Գալուստ Կիւլպէնկեան; 23 March 1869 – 20 July 1955), nicknamed "Mr Five Per Cent", was a British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Calouste Gulbenkian has received more than 640,551 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Calouste Gulbenkian is the 70th most popular businessperson (down from 55th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Turkey (down from 251st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Businessperson.

Calouste Gulbenkian was a Turkish-born Armenian oil magnate who was the founder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which is a philanthropic organization. He was most famous for his oil empire, which he built in the early 20th century.

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  • 30

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 70 out of 601. Before him are Frank Williams, Margaret Hamilton, Helena Rubinstein, Robert McNamara, J. Bruce Ismay, and Jakob Fugger. After him are Larry Ellison, Boris Berezovsky, Kiichiro Toyoda, Kris Jenner, Estée Lauder, and Lee Kun-hee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 17. Before him are Fritz Pregl, Hans Spemann, Kasturba Gandhi, Maud of Wales, Rudolf Otto, and Frederick Trump. After him are Christian Lous Lange, Komitas, Siegfried Wagner, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Henri Désiré Landru, and Emilio Aguinaldo. Among people deceased in 1955, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 20. Before him are Helmuth Weidling, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Utrillo, Paul Claudel, George Enescu, and Vasily Blokhin. After him are Oswald Avery, Carmen Miranda, James B. Sumner, Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Pak Hon-yong.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 282 out of 1,301. Before him are Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1021), Thomas Palaiologos (1409), Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958), Michael IX Palaiologos (1277), Elia Kazan (1909), and Cevdet Sunay (1899). After him are Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1010), Polyxena (null), Raziye Sultan (null), Cleanthes (-330), Tribonian (475), and Philemon (100).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Turkey

Among businesspeople born in Turkey, Calouste Gulbenkian ranks 2. Before him are Aristotle Onassis (1906). After him are Basil Zaharoff (1849), Uğur Şahin (1965), Dieter Zetsche (1953), Salt Bae (1983), Güler Sabancı (1955), and Fikret Orman (1967).

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