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Cyrus West Field

1819 - 1892

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Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819 – July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cyrus West Field has received more than 200,702 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Cyrus West Field is the 530th most popular businessperson (down from 62nd in 2019), the 8,250th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,590th in 2019) and the 190th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

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  • 43.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Cyrus West Field ranks 530 out of 601Before him are James Gordon Bennett Jr., Li Shufu, Indra Nooyi, Steve Jackson, Michael Burry, and Josef Ackermann. After him are Joe Sutter, Ginni Rometty, Erick Thohir, Sumner Redstone, Eliphalet Remington, and Reid Hoffman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Cyrus West Field ranks 84Before him are William Powell Frith, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Yakov Polonsky, James Spriggs Payne, Ion Emanuel Florescu, and Joaquín Jovellar y Soler. After him are Alexandru G. Golescu, William Rosecrans, Joseph Bazalgette, Alexander Melville Bell, Henry Tate, and George Salmon. Among people deceased in 1892, Cyrus West Field ranks 69Before him are Dimitrie Brătianu, Henry Edward Manning, Sereno Watson, Dimitrios Valvis, Ernestine Rose, and Joaquín Jovellar y Soler. After him are Johan Sverdrup, Alexandre Levy, Teréz Karacs, John Greenleaf Whittier, Pieter Willem Korthals, and James Skivring Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cyrus West Field ranks 8,250 out of 18,182Before him are Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), James Ewing (1866), Adam Maida (1930), Laura Secord (1775), George Herriman (1880), and Deborah Shelton (1948). After him are Walter Breuning (1896), Peggy Rea (1921), James Neill (1860), Jimmy Dorsey (1904), Esai Morales (1962), and Rudy Tomjanovich (1948).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Cyrus West Field ranks 190Before him are Marvin Heemeyer (1951), Richard DeVos (1926), Joel Glazer (1970), Kevin Systrom (1983), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), and Michael Burry (1971). After him are Joe Sutter (1921), Ginni Rometty (1957), Sumner Redstone (1923), Eliphalet Remington (1793), Reid Hoffman (1967), and Mark R. Hughes (1956).