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Charles Yerkes

1837 - 1905

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Charles Tyson Yerkes Jr. ( YUR-keez; June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905) was an American financier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Yerkes has received more than 163,254 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Yerkes is the 382nd most popular businessperson (down from 335th in 2019), the 4,900th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,960th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 16

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  • 2.50

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  • 2.74

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Charles Yerkes ranks 382 out of 601Before him are Henry Luce, John Elkann, Tatsumi Kimishima, Akio Toyoda, Sylvia Beach, and John Templeton. After him are Salt Bae, Li Ning, Chris Hughes, Jamie Hyneman, Brendan Eich, and Meng Wanzhou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Charles Yerkes ranks 71Before him are Ernst Ziller, Tigran Chukhajian, Walter Hauser, Altaf Hussain Hali, Tony Robert-Fleury, and Ignatz Kolisch. After him are Jorge Isaacs, Mary Harris Jones, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Alphonse Legros, Wilhelm Lexis, and Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1905, Charles Yerkes ranks 58Before him are Charles Renard, Alexander, Prince of Lippe, Hermann Wissmann, John Hay, Henry Irving, and Kārlis Baumanis. After him are Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Célestine Galli-Marié, Henrik Sjöberg, Francesco Tamagno, Hranush Arshagyan, and Simeon Solomon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Yerkes ranks 4,900 out of 18,182Before him are Mary Beth Peil (1940), Taryn Power (1953), Barry Harris (1929), Tom Hayden (1939), Wilson Bentley (1865), and Peter Jacobson (1965). After him are Gina Torres (1969), Shelley Long (1949), E. B. White (1899), Tyra Banks (1973), Bill Medley (1940), and Roy Rogers (1911).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Charles Yerkes ranks 120Before him are Howard Schultz (1953), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Roy Raymond (1947), John Elkann (1976), Sylvia Beach (1887), and John Templeton (1912). After him are Chris Hughes (1983), Jamie Hyneman (1956), Brendan Eich (1961), Gene Haas (1952), Jim Walton (1948), and William Henry Conley (1840).