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Elizabeth Holmes

1984 - Today

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Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection with her blood-testing company, Theranos. The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the United States on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Holmes has received more than 35,242,930 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Elizabeth Holmes is the 361st most popular inventor (down from 354th in 2019), the 8,089th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,686th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 35M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 361 out of 426. Before her are Peter Madsen, Almon Brown Strowger, Kazimierz Prószyński, František Křižík, George Stibitz, and John Milne. After her are Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, Amar Bose, William Friese-Greene, and Lewis Howard Latimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 91. Before her are Maryna Viazovska, Nilmar, Stefan Kießling, Carlos Kameni, Vedad Ibišević, and Prince Félix of Luxembourg. After her are Marshall Allman, Sasha Vujačić, Carmelo Anthony, Laverne Cox, John David Washington, and Vera Zvonareva.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 8,089 out of 20,380. Before her are Peggy Wood (1892), Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803), Grace Park (1974), Story Musgrave (1935), Laura Poitras (1964), and David Koepp (1963). After her are Marge Champion (1919), Jimmy Hart (1943), Alphonso Taft (1810), Tracy McGrady (1979), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), and Abraham Flexner (1866).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 96. Before her are Oliver Evans (1755), Charles Darrow (1889), Jerry Lawson (1940), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), and George Stibitz (1904). After her are Amar Bose (1929), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Frank Piasecki (1919), Margaret E. Knight (1838), and Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884).

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