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Edwin Drake

1819 - 1880

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Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill for oil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Drake has received more than 414,029 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Drake is the 351st most popular businessperson (down from 238th in 2019), the 4,306th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,031st in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Edwin Drake ranks 351 out of 601. Before him are David Sarnoff, Viktor Vekselberg, Mikhail Prokhorov, Jakob Nielsen, Johanna Quandt, and Franklin Clarence Mars. After him are Henry Cole, Pavel Durov, George Averoff, John D. Rockefeller III, Charles Koch, and Satya Nadella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Edwin Drake ranks 62. Before him are Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Lucile Grahn, Eunice Newton Foote, Charles Kingsley, James Russell Lowell, and Vatroslav Lisinski. After him are Théodore Gouvy, Nicolae Bălcescu, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Abe Masahiro, Butrus al-Bustani, and Pieter Bleeker. Among people deceased in 1880, Edwin Drake ranks 37. Before him are Arthur Morin, Alphonse Pénaud, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, and Lucretia Mott. After him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Edmond Albius, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, James Craig Watson, and Benjamin Peirce.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Drake ranks 4,306 out of 18,182. Before him are Justin Chambers (1970), William H. Prescott (1796), Winnaretta Singer (1865), Anita O'Day (1919), Pat Boone (1934), and Fred MacMurray (1908). After him are Ralph Rose (1885), Reuben Fine (1914), Al Taliaferro (1905), Harry Hamlin (1951), Lizzie Magie (1866), and Ted Nugent (1948).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Edwin Drake ranks 108. Before him are Roy E. Disney (1930), Armand Hammer (1898), Malcom McLean (1913), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Tommy Mottola (1949), and Franklin Clarence Mars (1883). After him are John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Charles Koch (1935), Ray Dalio (1949), Dana White (1969), Linda McMahon (1948), and Howard Schultz (1953).

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