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Elihu Yale

1649 - 1721

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Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elihu Yale has received more than 1,233,495 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Elihu Yale is the 11,037th most popular politician (up from 11,187th in 2019), the 4,006th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,401st in 2019) and the 264th most popular American Politician.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

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  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elihu Yale ranks 11,037 out of 19,576. Before him are Viliam Široký, Ludwig Renn, Tahurwaili, Bernardino Caballero, Gadi Eisenkot, and Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus. After him are Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani, Zinaida Greceanîi, Antonio Priuli, and Ahmed Cevdet Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1649, Elihu Yale ranks 14. Before him are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, John Blow, Jan Luyken, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, and Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, and Titus Oates. Among people deceased in 1721, Elihu Yale ranks 12. Before him are Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, and Pierre Daniel Huet. After him are Edward Colston, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, and Zinat-un-Nissa Begum.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 4,006 out of 20,380. Before him are Sam Francis (1923), Belinda Carlisle (1958), Gil Birmingham (1953), William Klein (1928), Mercedes Ruehl (1948), and Anthony Delon (1964). After him are Henry Kuttner (1915), Tex Watson (1945), Kate Mulgrew (1955), Krist Novoselic (1965), Lee Evans (1947), and Tab Hunter (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 264. Before him are Nick Bollettieri (1931), Milton George Henschel (1920), Horace Mann (1796), John W. McCormack (1891), Robert Mueller (1944), and Surangel Whipps Jr. (1968). After him are Judith Reisman (1935), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Patrick Henry (1736), Robert Smith (1757), Michael Kahn (1935), and George M. Dallas (1792).

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