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Daniel Peter

1836 - 1919

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Daniel Peter (9 March 1836 – 4 November 1919) was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Peter's Chocolate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Peter has received more than 170,467 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Daniel Peter is the 306th most popular businessperson (down from 236th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 197th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Daniel Peter ranks 306 out of 847. Before him are Frits Philips, Marc Rich, Paul Castellano, Ida Straus, Edward Cave, and François Coty. After him are Gerard Philips, Stefan Persson, Alfred Edwards, Amadeo Giannini, Bertha Krupp, and Alice Walton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Daniel Peter ranks 40. Before him are Jan Gotlib Bloch, Antônio Carlos Gomes, Matsudaira Katamori, Winslow Homer, Piet Cronjé, and Juliette Adam. After him are John Atkinson Grimshaw, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Inoue Kaoru, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Princess Anna of Saxony, and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville. Among people deceased in 1919, Daniel Peter ranks 81. Before him are Wilfrid Laurier, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Francisco Moreno, László Mednyánszky, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, and Elin Danielson-Gambogi. After him are Michel Théato, Alexander Izvolsky, Szymon Winawer, André Prévost, Aaron Kosminski, and Franz Nissl.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Daniel Peter ranks 271 out of 1,015. Before him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Domenico Trezzini (1670), Walter Hauser (1837), Lisa Della Casa (1919), Christoph Blocher (1940), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818). After him are Saint Othmar (689), Leopold Kielholz (1911), Peter Bieri (1944), Flavio Cotti (1939), Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891), and Numa Droz (1844).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Daniel Peter ranks 11. Before him are Louis Chevrolet (1878), César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), and Umberto Agnelli (1934). After him are Paul Sacher (1906), Gustav Wiederkehr (1905), Walter Wild (1872), Marc Faber (1946), Josef Ackermann (1948), and Bob Lutz (1932).

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