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Eli Lilly

1838 - 1898

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Eli Lilly (July 8, 1838 – June 6, 1898) was a Union Army officer, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and recruited a company of men to serve with him in the 18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery. He was later promoted to major and then colonel, and was given command of the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eli Lilly has received more than 718,428 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Eli Lilly is the 429th most popular businessperson (up from 458th in 2019), the 5,215th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,370th in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 50.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Eli Lilly ranks 429 out of 847. Before him are Vincent J. McMahon, Jim Ratcliffe, Jorge Mendes, Guy Laliberté, Angus Ogilvy, and Ernest Oppenheimer. After him are Suge Knight, Vicente Calderón, Peter Lynch, Jawed Karim, Azim Premji, and N. R. Narayana Murthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Eli Lilly ranks 79. Before him are Henry Adams, Valeriano Weyler, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Raffaello Giovagnoli, Jules Méline, and Édouard Colonne. After him are Toyohara Chikanobu, Keshub Chandra Sen, Marianne Cope, Duleep Singh, Paul Mauser, and Giovanni Cagliero. Among people deceased in 1898, Eli Lilly ranks 54. Before him are Constance Lloyd, Louis Buffet, Tigran Chukhajian, Miklós Barabás, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, and George Allman. After him are Matilda Joslyn Gage, Calixto García, Joaquín Crespo, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Emil Hartmann, and Karl Knies.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eli Lilly ranks 5,215 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe E. Brown (1891), Kenneth Mars (1935), Marian Seldes (1928), Sterling Morrison (1942), Jimi Jamison (1951), and James Arness (1923). After him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), Stephen A. Douglas (1813), Kristen Wiig (1973), Anita Page (1910), Bill Nieder (1933), and Lester Allan Pelton (1829).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Eli Lilly ranks 131. Before him are Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), Sylvia Beach (1887), John Templeton (1912), John Elkann (1976), Jim Walton (1948), and Vincent J. McMahon (1914). After him are Suge Knight (1965), Peter Lynch (1944), James Buchanan Duke (1856), Muhtar Kent (1952), Michael Dell (1965), and Henry Clay Frick (1849).

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