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Eugène Schueller

1881 - 1957

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Eugène Paul Louis Schueller (20 March 1881 – 23 August 1957) was a French chemist and entrepreneur who was the founder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Schueller has received more than 924,310 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eugène Schueller is the 147th most popular businessperson (up from 266th in 2019), the 1,544th most popular biography from France (up from 2,615th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Eugène Schueller ranks 147 out of 847Before him are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Masayoshi Son, Asa Griggs Candler, Giovanni Battista Caproni, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Joe Weider. After him are Theodor de Bry, Lee Iacocca, Basil Zaharoff, Vincenzo Lancia, Ron Dennis, and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Eugène Schueller ranks 54Before him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Franz Gürtner, Victor Klemperer, Hugo Meisl, P. G. Wodehouse, and Paul Cornu. After him are L. E. J. Brouwer, Vincenzo Lancia, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Vincenzo Peruggia, Cecil B. DeMille, and H. H. Kung. Among people deceased in 1957, Eugène Schueller ranks 58Before him are Mamoru Shigemitsu, Henry Norris Russell, James Brendan Connolly, Rudolf Diels, Max Amann, and Giovanni Battista Caproni. After him are Qi Baishi, Édouard Herriot, Louis B. Mayer, Rezső Kasztner, Arnold van Gennep, and Theodor Körner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Schueller ranks 1,544 out of 6,770Before him are Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), John of Matha (1150), Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517), Lucien Petit-Breton (1882), Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (1446), and Arnaud Amalric (1160). After him are Henri Murger (1822), Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), Henri Pitot (1695), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), and Philip, Duke of Orléans (1336).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Eugène Schueller ranks 9Before him are Jules Rimet (1873), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), Louis Vuitton (1821), Christophe Plantin (1520), François Pinault (1936), and Armand Peugeot (1849). After him are Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Pierre Bergé (1930), Louis Réard (1897), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), François-Henri Pinault (1962), and Guy de Rothschild (1909).