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Chris Gardner

1954 - Today

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Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stockbroker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Gardner has received more than 9,077,191 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 24 in 2019). Chris Gardner is the 341st most popular businessperson (down from 281st in 2019), the 3,932nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,232nd in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Chris Gardners by language

Over the past year Chris Gardner has had the most page views in the with 809,224 views, followed by Spanish (168,025), and Portuguese (65,499). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hindi (104.31%), Japanese (39.47%), and Malayalam (37.46%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Chris Gardner ranks 341 out of 847. Before him are Sundar Pichai, Viktor Vekselberg, Timothy Dexter, B. C. Forbes, Lamine Diack, and Max Manus. After him are Evangelos Zappas, Arthur D. Levinson, Lei Jun, Thierry Breton, Akshata Murty, and Arnold Rothstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Chris Gardner ranks 168. Before him are Milovan Rajevac, Alice, Dennis Haysbert, Andrés Pastrana Arango, Margot Wallström, and Rekha. After him are Abdelaziz Djerad, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Vasile Dîba, Leung Chun-ying, Wang Jianlin, and Frank Bainimarama.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chris Gardner ranks 3,932 out of 20,380. Before him are Rosalind Russell (1907), Georgia Hale (1900), Blake Clark (1946), Milton George Henschel (1920), Tommy Morrison (1969), and Billy Vaughn (1919). After him are Horace Mann (1796), Lauren Holly (1963), Mike Love (1941), Sable (1967), Dabney Coleman (1932), and Deke Slayton (1924).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Chris Gardner ranks 104. Before him are David Koch (1940), Chuck Feeney (1931), Linda McMahon (1948), Roy E. Disney (1930), Edwin Drake (1819), and Timothy Dexter (1747). After him are Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Charles Geschke (1939), Allen Klein (1931), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), and Maxwell Perkins (1884).

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