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Eli Lilly

1838 - 1898

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Eli Lilly (July 8, 1838 – June 6, 1898) was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. 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 Regiment Indiana Cavalry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eli Lilly has received more than 639,346 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Eli Lilly is the 458th most popular businessperson (down from 393rd in 2019), the 6,383rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,086th in 2019) and the 150th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 17

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  • 2.99

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Eli Lilly ranks 458 out of 601Before him are Victor Pinchuk, Mary Barra, Anders Frisk, Suleyman Kerimov, Trip Hawkins, and Samuel Cunard. After him are Gregory Olsen, Isabella Beeton, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Zhong Shanshan, Teddy Mayer, and Dmitry Rybolovlev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Eli Lilly ranks 86Before him are Marin Drinov, Édouard Colonne, Ferdinand Zirkel, Adam Asnyk, Alexander Veselovsky, and Gustav Neumann. After him are Duleep Singh, Stefanos Skouloudis, Octavia Hill, Cleveland Abbe, Margaret E. Knight, and Marc Delafontaine. Among people deceased in 1898, Eli Lilly ranks 62Before him are Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Karl Knies, Johan Lange, Ángel Ganivet, and Ramón Emeterio Betances. After him are Joaquín Crespo, John Hopkinson, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Félix María Zuloaga, James Hall, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eli Lilly ranks 6,383 out of 18,182Before him are Nancy Chodorow (1944), Richard Helms (1913), Damon Knight (1922), Renee O'Connor (1971), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), and James H. Clark (1944). After him are John Larroquette (1947), Eric Stonestreet (1971), Bill Walton (1952), Brad Delson (1977), Peyton List (1998), and Ken Davitian (1953).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Eli Lilly ranks 150Before him are James Buchanan Duke (1856), Milton S. Hershey (1857), Herman Cain (1945), Guy Kawasaki (1954), Mary Barra (1961), and Trip Hawkins (1953). After him are Gregory Olsen (1945), Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822), Teddy Mayer (1935), Jay Gould (1836), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), and Richard Bass (1929).