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Carl Icahn

1936 - Today

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Carl Celian Icahn (; born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Icahn's business model is to take large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate from changes to corporate policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Icahn has received more than 5,063,544 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Icahn is the 464th most popular businessperson (down from 404th in 2019), the 5,818th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,337th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Carl Icahns by language

Over the past year Carl Icahn has had the most page views in the with 495,427 views, followed by German (21,923), and Russian (14,187). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (68.81%), Portuguese (50.25%), and Burmese (33.51%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Carl Icahn ranks 464 out of 847. Before her are Jean-Michel Aulas, Reinhard Mohn, Brendan Eich, Lila Tretikov, Eugène Lanti, and Kim Dotcom. After her are Lawrence Roberts, Pierre Omidyar, Gigi Becali, Mark Cuban, Anders Frisk, and Jamie Hyneman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Carl Icahn ranks 333. Before her are Zhong Nanshan, Robert W. Floyd, Òscar Ribas Reig, Tomáš Pospíchal, Art Metrano, and Ashley Cooper. After her are Carlos Fonseca, Jurij Koch, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Isacio Calleja, Richard Harrison, and Tony Dallara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Icahn ranks 5,818 out of 20,380. Before her are Ally Sheedy (1962), Julianna Margulies (1966), Robert Mills (1927), Lucy Stone (1818), Hilary Duff (1987), and Colleen Moore (1899). After her are Henry E. Holt (1929), Jon Huntsman Jr. (1960), Kenneth H. Cooper (1931), Charles David Keeling (1928), Herman Daly (1938), and Kevin Conroy (1955).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Carl Icahn ranks 143. Before her are Henry Clay Frick (1849), Alan Lomax (1915), Robert Durst (1943), Michael Eisner (1942), Chad Hurley (1977), and Brendan Eich (1961). After her are Lawrence Roberts (1937), Mark Cuban (1958), Jamie Hyneman (1956), Bob Lazar (1959), S. Robson Walton (1944), and Dana White (1969).

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