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Douglas Tompkins

1943 - 2015

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Douglas Rainsford Tompkins (March 20, 1943 – December 8, 2015) was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. He founded the North Face Inc, co-founded Esprit and various environmental groups, including the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Tompkins Conservation. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he and Susie Tompkins Buell (née Russell), his first wife, co-founded and ran two companies: the outdoor equipment and clothing company The North Face and the Esprit clothing company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Tompkins has received more than 1,405,796 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Douglas Tompkins is the 299th most popular businessperson (down from 270th in 2019), the 3,385th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,116th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 53.91

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Douglas Tompkins ranks 299 out of 847. Before him are Arnon Milchan, John Cockerill, John DeLorean, Silvio Santos, Mikimoto Kōkichi, and Arthur Guinness. After him are Frits Philips, Marc Rich, Paul Castellano, Ida Straus, Edward Cave, and François Coty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Douglas Tompkins ranks 240. Before him are Patrick Demarchelier, Maurice Bishop, Valery Nepomnyashchy, Angélica María, Osamu Dezaki, and Alain Corneau. After him are Joselito, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Angelo Bagnasco, Andrea True, Giovanni Goria, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. Among people deceased in 2015, Douglas Tompkins ranks 141. Before him are Esther Brand, Doris Hart, Ernst Fuchs, Roberto M. Levingston, Robert Conquest, and Valentin Rasputin. After him are Franco Interlenghi, Dick Nanninga, Moses Malone, Percy Sledge, André Glucksmann, and Johanna Quandt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Tompkins ranks 3,385 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Cunningham (1952), David Riesman (1909), Josh Hartnett (1978), Mariska Hargitay (1964), Matthew Fox (1966), and Evel Knievel (1938). After him are Chris Tucker (1971), Ma Rainey (1886), George Pullman (1831), Tom Hulce (1953), Philip Kaufman (1936), and Edwin Catmull (1945).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Douglas Tompkins ranks 92. Before him are Jack Welch (1935), Melinda Gates (1964), Hetty Green (1834), Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Erin Brockovich (1960), and John DeLorean (1925). After him are Paul Castellano (1915), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Alice Walton (1949), David Stern (1942), Jerry Buss (1933), and David Koch (1940).

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