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Charles Pathé

1863 - 1957

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Charles Morand Pathé (French: [pate]; 26 December 1863 – 25 December 1957) was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image. Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Pathé has received more than 154,837 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Pathé is the 291st most popular businessperson (down from 250th in 2019), the 2,820th most popular biography from France (down from 2,386th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Charles Pathé ranks 291 out of 847Before him are Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Aurelio Peccei, Eiji Toyoda, Jensen Huang, Sergio Marchionne, and Stefano Casiraghi. After him are Albert Kahn, Arnon Milchan, John Cockerill, John DeLorean, Silvio Santos, and Mikimoto Kōkichi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Charles Pathé ranks 70Before him are Felix Blumenfeld, Joseph Caillaux, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Pierina Legnani, Paul Walden, and Paul Héroult. After him are Géza Gárdonyi, Max Skladanowsky, Eero Järnefelt, Yevhen Petrushevych, Princess Mathilde of Saxony, and Vladimir Obruchev. Among people deceased in 1957, Charles Pathé ranks 100Before him are Dorothy L. Sayers, Claude Farrère, Paul Walden, Ramon Magsaysay, Valery Larbaud, and Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany. After him are Musidora, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Charles Kay Ogden, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Halil Kut, and Karl Genzken.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Pathé ranks 2,820 out of 6,770Before him are Claude Gillot (1673), Théophile de Viau (1590), Pierre Magnol (1638), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Walter Gieseking (1895), and John, Duke of Touraine (1398). After him are Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Achille Richard (1794), John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), Pierre Séguier (1588), Jean Patou (1887), and Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany (1000).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Charles Pathé ranks 19Before him are Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Guy de Rothschild (1909), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Yves Rocher (1930), and Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777). After him are Albert Kahn (1860), François Coty (1874), Serge Dassault (1925), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Thierry Breton (1955), and Christophe de Margerie (1951).