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César Ritz

1850 - 1918

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César Ritz, born Cäsar Ritz (23 February 1850 – 24 October 1918), was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the Ritz and Carlton Hotels in London (the forerunners of the modern Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of César Ritz has received more than 615,349 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. César Ritz is the 121st most popular businessperson (down from 101st in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 98th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Businessperson.

César Ritz is most famous for being the founder of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

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  • 620k

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  • 60.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, César Ritz ranks 121 out of 601. Before him are William Randolph Hearst, Uli Hoeneß, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Gordon Moore, Carlos Ghosn, and Stan Kroenke. After him are Bernard Baruch, Joan Laporta, Walter Chrysler, Giulia Tofana, Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, César Ritz ranks 23. Before him are Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Ignác Goldziher, Victoriano Huerta, and Lluís Domènech i Montaner. After him are Besarion Jughashvili, Sami Frashëri, William Morris Davis, Ivan Vazov, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, and Mikhail Chigorin. Among people deceased in 1918, César Ritz ranks 47. Before him are Emil Jellinek, Andrew Dickson White, John Bauer, Julius Wellhausen, Anna Dostoevskaya, and Paul von Rennenkampf. After him are István Tisza, Ivan Cankar, Princess Anna of Prussia, Stepan Shaumian, Daniel Burley Woolfall, and Vasily Radlov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, César Ritz ranks 106 out of 876. Before him are Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Hannes Meyer (1889), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), and Gaspard Bauhin (1560). After him are Albert Anker (1831), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Charles Bonnet (1720), Anna Göldi (1734), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), and Henri Guisan (1874).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, César Ritz ranks 6. Before him are Sepp Blatter (1936), Joan Gamper (1877), Aga Khan IV (1936), Louis Chevrolet (1878), and Gianni Infantino (1970). After him are Peter Sauber (1943), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), and Paul Sacher (1906).

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