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David Geffen

1943 - Today

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David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American film producer, record executive, and media proprietor. In music, he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records (with Mo Ostin, Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker) in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Geffen has received more than 5,829,486 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Geffen is the 394th most popular businessperson (up from 418th in 2019), the 4,723rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,644th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, David Geffen ranks 394 out of 847. Before him are Sergei Shchukin, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Franz Josef Popp, Adolf Merckle, Malcom McLean, and Toto Wolff. After him are Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Peter Thiel, Henry Cole, Eddie Jordan, Pavel Durov, and Katharine Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, David Geffen ranks 344. Before him are Hans Heyer, Yukio Kasaya, Shannon Lucid, Patrick D'Rozario, Gigi Meroni, and Jeffrey Tate. After him are Éva Marton, Joe Haldeman, Gil Amelio, Erika Steinbach, Petar Skansi, and Ottavio Bianchi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Geffen ranks 4,723 out of 20,380. Before him are Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Thomas Friedman (1953), Robert Leckie (1920), Stormy Daniels (1979), William Hoyt (1875), and Claudette Colvin (1939). After him are Bill Goldberg (1966), John Singleton Copley (1738), IShowSpeed (2005), Willie Garson (1964), Peter Revson (1939), and Alvan Clark (1804).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, David Geffen ranks 119. Before him are Cyrus West Field (1819), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), Andrew Tate (1986), Reed Hastings (1960), Armand Hammer (1898), and Malcom McLean (1913). After him are Katharine Graham (1917), Robert Monroe (1915), Roy Raymond (1947), Ron Woodroof (1950), Charles Yerkes (1837), and Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947).

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