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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, and philanthropist. Although born in Boston, Massachusetts, he only lived in America as a child, spending 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 1,142,060 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Elihu Yale is the 11,219th most popular politician (up from 12,504th in 2019), the 4,413th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,450th in 2019) and the 273rd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elihu Yale ranks 11,219 out of 15,577Before him are Gaius Popillius Laenas, Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jorge Pacheco Areco, King Yuan of Zhou, John II, Duke of Cleves, and Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. After him are Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, Mustafa Ould Salek, Shepenupet I, Senseneb, Mario García Menocal, and Lucius Porcius Cato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1649, Elihu Yale ranks 14Before him are Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Jan Luyken, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, and Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Titus Oates. Among people deceased in 1721, Elihu Yale ranks 12Before him are Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, and Edward Colston. After him are Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal and James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 4,413 out of 18,182Before him are Mae Marsh (1894), Jim Gray (1944), George C. Homans (1910), W. S. Van Dyke (1889), Charles Koch (1935), and Raymond Smith Dugan (1878). After him are David Bushnell (1742), Paul Chambers (1935), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Todd Rundgren (1948), Charles Fort (1874), and David Zucker (1947).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 273Before him are Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823), William R. King (1786), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Robert Smith (1757), Ed Koch (1924), and Jim Gray (1944). After him are Robert Mueller (1944), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Jack Sharkey (1902), and Robert Byrd (1917).