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François Pinault

1936 - Today

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François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis. Pinault started his business in the timber industry in the early 1960s. Taken public in 1988, his company invested in specialty store chains and changed its name to Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Pinault has received more than 2,686,681 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). François Pinault is the 123rd most popular businessperson (up from 136th in 2019), the 1,312th most popular biography from France (up from 1,395th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Businessperson.

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  • 60.68

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, François Pinault ranks 123 out of 847. Before him are Iwasaki Yatarō, César Ritz, William Boeing, Madam C. J. Walker, Ivana Trump, and Uli Hoeneß. After him are James Mayer de Rothschild, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Colonel Tom Parker, Ren Zhengfei, Sam Walton, and John McAfee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, François Pinault ranks 66. Before him are Carla Bley, J. Michael Bishop, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Kris Kristofferson, and Alan J. Heeger. After him are Gianni Vattimo, Don Cherry, Hideki Shirakawa, Engelbert Humperdinck, Yury Luzhkov, and Joe D'Amato.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Pinault ranks 1,312 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine François Prévost (1697), Bernard Buffet (1928), Petrus Ramus (1515), Capucine (1928), Maria Schneider (1952), and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698). After him are Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Vivant Denon (1747), Comtessa de Dia (1175), and Antoine Griezmann (1991).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, François Pinault ranks 7. Before him are Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Bernard Arnault (1949), Jules Rimet (1873), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), Louis Vuitton (1821), and Christophe Plantin (1520). After him are Armand Peugeot (1849), Eugène Schueller (1881), Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Pierre Bergé (1930), Louis Réard (1897), and Ghislaine Maxwell (1961).

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